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BY JULIANNE MCSHANE
They’re exploring the shore.
The city is considering a
10-block swath of Coney Island
Creek as planners determine
where in the waterway is the
best place to drop a ferry dock,
according to leaders of the
agency that oversees the NYC
Ferry system.
Offi cials with the Economic
Development Corporation are
surveying the shoreline between
W. 23rd and W. 33rd
streets to determine the best
spot for a berth within that
stretch, a senior project manager
at the agency told locals at
a Feb. 19 meeting of local Community
Board 13.
“We’re looking at a range
… to fi gure out where is best
within that,” said Doug Rose.
In January, Mayor DeBlasio
announced the city would
sail commuter ships from Coney
in his annual State of the
City address. Later that month,
Economic Development Corporation
spokeswoman Stephanie
Báez said offi cials are considering
building the berth in
the “general area” around W.
31st Street and Bayview Avenue,
near the Kaiser Park fi shing
pier. Offi cials specifi cally
marked that site and another
just outside the park at W. 33rd
Street and Bayview Avenue
— which are separated by the
sand spit — as possible dock locations
in the feasibility study
released by the economic
agency following Hizzoner’s
announcement.
And at the recent joint meeting
of CB13’s Transportation
and Environmental committees,
Councilman Mark Treyger
(D–Coney Island) said the
landing will more likely end
up somewhere near Kaiser
Park, which spans W. 23rd–W.
32nd streets between Neptune
and Bayview avenues, rather
than near the tentative W. 33rd
Street location, due to the adjacent
sand spit — a claim that
two economic agency reps confi
rmed on the spot.
“According to the most upto
date analysis, because of the
sandbar at that location, that
Bayview corridor is not ideal,
and it’ll likely move closer to
that Kaiser Park location,”
Treyger said.
Assemblywoman Mathylde
Frontus (D–Coney Island) also
hoped agency honchos would
decide against installing the
dock on the W. 33rd Street side
of the sand spit, expressing
concerns about how a landing
there might affect locals who
live on Bayview Avenue.
“I want the ferry in Coney
Island — do I think that W. 33rd
Street and Bayview is the ideal
location? Absolutely not,” Frontus
said at the meeting.
The ferry-feasibility study
notes that building a berth on
either side of the sand spit needs
“careful consideration as shifting
sands, fog, and high winds
would be an ongoing challenge
to maintaining safe and reliable
operations here.”
But NYC Ferry honchos
are keeping those challenges
in mind as they study possible
sites, according to Rose, who
added that they are also considering
locals’ concerns about accessibility
and potential quality
of-life issues as they work to
determine a dock location.
Still, Coney Islanders at
the meeting alleged the cons of
building a dock on either side
of the sand spit would outweigh
the pros of bringing ferry service
to the neighborhood, with
the co-chairwoman of CB13’s
Environmental Committee
worrying that landings there
would bring even more traffi c
to Bayview Avenue.
“There’s an issue with
transportation and parking
over there, it’s backed up,” said
Selena Grant. “I’m for the ferry,
I question the location.”
Starting ferry service would
likely mitigate some of that
traffi c, according to Treyger,
who said the end of the creek
near the sand spit is the peninsula’s
only option for accommodating
big boats, due to the
more shallow waters further
up Coney Island Creek.
But another local argued the
dock should be built further up
the creek near W. 21st Street —
a location Borough President
Adams endorsed when calling
for ferry service in Coney back
in 2017 — in order to prompt
the city to clean out more of the
waterway to make way for the
service.
“I want to see it at W. 21st
Street — let’s clean up Coney
Island Creek,” said Jeff Sanoff,
co-chairman of CB13’s Environmental
Committee.
Creating a landing that far
up the creek, however, poses
additional challenges, Rose
told the committee members —
a reality his economic-agency
colleague Báez also noted.
LOOKING FOR A LANDING: Offi cials are surveying a 10-block stretch of
Coney Island Creek, seen here from above, for a location to build a new
NYC Ferry dock. NYCEDC
Dock hunt!
City studying 10-block stretch along
Coney Island Creek for ferry landing