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SHIPPING OFF FROM SUNSET PARK?: The city-operated Brooklyn Army Terminal is among the piers
that offi cials will open to party boats recently banished from Sheepshead Bay’s Emmons Avenue pier.
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Party hopping
Boats banished from Sheepshead welcome
in Sunset Park, other nabes, offi cials say
BY KEVIN DUGGAN
They’re offering safe harbors.
The city will help owners
of controversial party
boats move their vessels
to other municipal docks
after offi cials banned the
ships from operating out of
Sheepshead Bay’s Emmons
Avenue pier.
Leaders of the Economic
Development Corporation
— whose so-called Dock
NYC program oversees fi ve
borough piers, and others
in Manhattan and Staten
Island — will assist captains
of the controversial
boats with fi nding alternate
ports to set sail from,
according to a mayoral
spokeswoman, who said
the ships can also dock at
privately owned berths.
“We will work to accommodate
pick-ups at appropriate
Dock NYC locations
as capacity allows. Or, they
can relocate to privately
owned marinas,” said Jane
Meyer.
Starting May 1, the
booze boats will only be
able to dock at the Emmons
Avenue pier under a
new ban that prohibits the
vessels from picking up
and dropping off revelers
there, Assemblyman Steven
Cymbrowitz (D–Sheepshead
Bay) announced on
Feb. 19 .
The exact list of city
piers the party cruises can
run from, however, is undecided,
according to reps for
the mayor, the Economic
Development Corporation,
and the Department of
Parks and Recreation.
But one location is the
economic-agency-operated
marina at Brooklyn Army
Terminal, according to a
spokeswoman for Mill Basin
state Sen. Roxanne Persaud,
whose constituents
last year protested a mayoral
proposal to dock the
boats in their neighborhood
.
“Party boats, according
to City Hall, will be relocated
from Sheepshead
Bay to the Brooklyn Army
Terminal,” said Matthew
D’Onofrio.
Mayoral spokeswoman
Meyer confi rmed that the
Sunset Park terminal,
where other booze boats already
operate , is among the
viable locations for the vessels
banished from Sheepshead
Bay.
“We will work with
boat owners if they want to
move, and Brooklyn Army
Terminal is one of the options,”
she said.
Offi cials ruled out using
three of the four other
economic-agency-operated
piers in Brooklyn, claiming
two — the Bayview Marina
at 2825 Flatbush Ave.,
and the Mill Basin Wharf
at 2731 Flatbush Ave. — do
not have the required infrastructure
for party boats,
according to Meyer.
And the third, the South
Brooklyn Marine Terminal
in Sunset Park, is only for
commercial and industrial
use, according to Economic
Development Corporation
spokeswoman Stephanie
Báez.
The fi fth agency-owned
dock, at a landing area
within the Atlantic Basin
off the coast of Red Hook,
features similar infrastructure
and amenities
as Brooklyn Army Terminal,
but Báez could not confi
rm by press time whether
it would also welcome the
party boats.
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