It’s been nearly five months since the East River Ferry departed from the India St. pier, depriving locals of an efficient and affordable commuting option, and it looks like that mode of transportation will not return until mid-2022.

Greenpointers spoke with Lendlease about the India Street Pier and received disappointing, albeit unsurprising, news. Lendlease has confirmed that ferry service to Greenpoint is expected to return in June 2022. 

“Lendlease is committed to bringing the ferry…

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  1. Moratorium? Permits? JUNE 2022!!!
    Can out politicians get off their behinds and please expediate the return of this vitaltransportation lon, most espeially vital in a pandemic where people are still hesytant about taking the risk of riding crwded subways to reach Manhattan.

  2. This is ridiculous, both reasons.

    1. Permitting process can’t be speeded up by the city to resolve a TRANSPORTATION issue for this neighborhood?? I find that hard to believe.

    2. The NYS Department of Environmental Conservation can’t make an exception to this situation to accommodate a mode of TRANSPORTATION for this borough? I find that hard to believe, as well.

    And finally, why when other piers have been repaired in short order and re-opened this year can the only pier that a private developer apparent owns not have been repaired in the same way and put back into service?

    I’m sorry, but none of this makes any sense. Hoping the folks who bought expensive units in that building immediately adjacent to the pier protest like fire to get this ferry stop (which affects them most directly – I’m assuming it was a prime reason why they bought in this building!) back in service ASAP.

    1. I work filing paperwork for stuff like this and while you are right. That city agencies SHOULD expedite work for the public and other city agencies the fact is that they don’t. In fact, the opposite seems to be true at times, in which agencies like to throw their weight around so the people running them make sure they feel important and their peers know. Very stupid but that’s the system our men and women die to “defend.”

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