by Emma Davey Update 10/05/2023: Service to Greenpoint has been restored, and Lendlease has responded to our inquiry.
“Due to the severe weather and flooding last Friday, the Greenpoint ferry landing experienced electrical equipment damage, resulting in intermittent power loss at the landing and ferry service interruptions.“
Last week, I claimed in writing that the only constants in life were death, taxes, and that Greenpoint would always have a weird smellgoing on. Adding another to…
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Having a backup manual pull chain hoist to operate the landing gate would seem logical. Then again, logic is usually left out of the equation. Also, why would the city allow private ownership of any dock or slip?
That tower was built badly. You can literally bend the metal sills back on West St. Not surprised things keep going wrong with the pier.
It likely also doesn’t help that there was a time during Covid of teens racing motor bikes up and down the pier.