Astoria residents urge city to build NYC Ferry connection to Upper East Side (York: houses)
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A coalition formed during the summer urging the city to expand NYC Ferry service to Astoria by providing a direct connection to Manhattan’s Upper East Side, where a landing already exists at 90th Street.
Residents of the Astoria Houses Tenants Association and the Durst Organization, which is building the massive development next door, formed the Hallets Point Alliance to lobby the city’s Economic Development Corporation for the expansion.
“You always want to do things that makes sense,” Constantinides said. “The distance is just 1,515 feet away. If you want to get people out of cars and take public transportation if it’s something that will accomplish that goal it would be a good one but right now it’s not an option.”
Hallets Point is more than a 20-minute walk from the nearest subway station and a trip to the Upper East Side could take up to an hour by train. The EDC did add the new Brooklyn Navy Yard ferry stop to the Astoria line that will connect residents to the city’s premier manufacturing and innovation hub, which currently employs 9,000 people and reach 20,000 jobs in the next few years.
But many of the residents of the Astoria Houses are currently employed in the Upper East Side’s medical sector, just 1,515 feet across the East River.
His group started an online petition urging the city to provide the service connection from Hallets Point to the Upper East Side to create a positive economic effect to both areas. To sign the petition, go to www.oana-ny.org, scroll down to “Supporting the extension of the NYC Ferry,” and click on the “Sign The Petition” button.
I see this costing a lot of money and not being well traveled. The train is far from the water in Astoria and again the train is far from the water on UES.
They have the M60 bus which takes you from Astoria to Harlem and drops you right off at the subway.
I see this costing a lot of money and not being well traveled. The train is far from the water in Astoria and again the train is far from the water on UES.
They have the M60 bus which takes you from Astoria to Harlem and drops you right off at the subway.
FWIW it's a 15-20 minute walk from the Astoria Houses to the nearest M60 bus stop.
I see this costing a lot of money and not being well traveled. The train is far from the water in Astoria and again the train is far from the water on UES.
They have the M60 bus which takes you from Astoria to Harlem and drops you right off at the subway.
You seem oblivious to the fact that many people in NYC don't live near subways, which is the whole point of the ferry service... To aid people that don't have a subway nearby....
Op-Ed: Astoria ferry needs a stop at Halletts Point
From the tip of Halletts Point in Astoria, the Upper East Side of Manhattan looks so close you can almost touch it. Only 1,500 feet of open water separates these two neighborhoods. But try getting there from here.
If you want to take a ferry, you need to sail south along the Queens shoreline to Long Island City, cross the East River to East 34th Street and switch to another ferry heading north along the opposite shore, or grab a bus or subway.
If you want to go the whole route by subway, well, get ready for a long trip. You’ll need to walk 15 to 20 minutes to get the N or the W, take it into Manhattan and then transfer to another subway to get uptown, a trip that takes more than an hour to traverse 1,500 feet by boat.
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