Two New York City Council members have introduced legislation to restore ferry service between Staten Island and Brooklyn.

STATEN ISLAND, N.Y. — Legislation was introduced in the City Council this week that would re-establish ferry service between Staten Island and Brooklyn.

NEW YORK (1010 WINS/WCBS 880) — Advocates rallied on Sunday afternoon at Canarsie Pier to call for Mayor Eric Adams to bring NYC Ferry service to the east Brooklyn neighborhood, an effort they ...

More than 160 years after Walt Whitman extolled the joys of riding the ferry, there are fresh opportunities to explore neighborhoods like Red Hook, Brooklyn Heights and Bay Ridge by boat.

Activists and legislators are pushing for the Brooklyn ferry service to Governors Island to be fully funded in this year’s final state budget to ensure Brooklynites have direct access to the green ...

The Hamilton Avenue Ferry: An old link and district in Red Hook lost to post-war development In the 1850s, Brooklyn’s Union Ferry Company operated seven routes to lower Manhattan. The ...

The ferry, which was municipally owned by privately operated, stopped operating soon after the bridge opened. Fifty-seven years later, isn’t it time to restore a Staten Island-to-Brooklyn ferry ...

As part of the Brooklyn Book Festival, NYU Whitman scholar Karen Karbiener and Walt Whitman Project Artistic Administrator Greg Trupiano will introduce and read Walt Whitman’s poem “Crossing Brooklyn ...