Ferry Service to Expand to Brooklyn Heights: Got Tourists?

City Wants Statue of Liberty Ferry Service to Expand Harbor Routes

http://www.nytimes.com/2007/03/29/nyregion/29ferry.html

"In an effort to expand ferry service beyond the major tourist attractions to other parts of New York Harbor, city officials made an attempt yesterday to insert themselves into the federal government’s process of choosing a Statue of Liberty ferry operator.

The city offered to share its resources and marketing expertise with companies bidding for the lucrative ferry contract. In exchange, it asked them to agree that if they win, they will help the city with its goal of providing ferry service to tie various parts of the waterfront together as a Harbor District.

City officials hope that the statue, which attracts more than four million visitors a year, will become the district’s centerpiece. But the National Park Service, which operates the statue and Ellis Island and has an April 27 deadline for the bids, put little emphasis on expanding service around the harbor in its contract.

Boats operated by Circle Line Sightseeing, the company that currently takes tourists to the statue and Ellis Island, leave only from Battery Park in Lower Manhattan and Liberty State Park in Jersey City. City officials want to expand that service to other areas they plan to redevelop, including Governors Island and Brooklyn Bridge Park."
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It might not happen, but I'm curious to what you guys think? More tourists, congestion? Good for local businesses? Traffic?