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NYC Ferry prices go up Monday, fall schedules take effect
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Catalina Gonella
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Louis C. Hochman
Published Sep 6, 2024
Modified Sep 9, 2024
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Tickets prices for the New York City Ferry go up on Monday, with regular ticket prices rising from $4 to $4.50, and bundles of 10 tickets rising from $27.50 to $29.
Prices for the ferry's discount program, launched in 2022 and modeled after the city's similar program for subways and buses, will go up as well — from $1.35 to $1.45 for a one-way ticket. The program is available every day to seniors, people with disabilities and low-income riders.
As of the start of this month, students can sign up to participate in the discount program for weekday tickets due to legislation sponsored by City Council Member Amanda Farías. Applications for students are available on the NYC Schools Account portal and the website for the ferry's discount program.
Ticket prices for the ferry are heavily subsidized by taxpayers. A 2022 comptroller's office report found the city underreported the ferry's costs and the impact of those subsidies for years, though the Economic Development Authority says it's been chipping away at the proportion of those subsidies.
The ferry's fall schedule also begins on Monday. That includes some changes to departure times on the Rockaway, Astoria, and South Brooklyn routes.
The South Brooklyn route will resume service to Governors Island, and riders from other routes can transfer to the South Brooklyn route at Pier 11. Weekend South Brooklyn service will include direct early morning service between Red Hook and Pier 11 from 7:30 to 9 a.m.
A modified holiday schedule for the Jewish holiday of Sukkot in October has also been put in place.
Schedules for all routes are here.
This story has been updated to add information on legislation regarding the ferry's discount program.
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After about two decades in (mostly) New Jersey-focused commercial print, digital and digital-but-radio-adjacent news, Lou stumbled into member-supported news in early 2021, as the editor and CEO of Montclair Local. There, he (hopes he) expanded enterprise, brought more sophistication to digital storytelling and moved the nonprofit newsroom closer to long-term financial sustainability. He helped lead the Local to its fourth consecutive General Excellence award from the New Jersey Press Association — the NJPA's highest honor with judges noting the paper's work to strip away layers of government opacity, to hold power to account, to make news accessible for more members of the community, to share the stories and concerns of more facets of the community and to tell compelling stories across multiple media. He's excited to continue the same ethic — news as a public service — at NYPR as the New Jersey and suburbs editor, drawing on the extraordinary talents of reporters including Karen Yi and Nancy Solomon. Lou lives in Philly (that commute!) with his partner and their two cats, about whom and about which he speaks incessantly.
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