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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. File photo by Caroline Spivack
Party hopping
Boats banished from Sheepshead
Bay welcome at city piers in Sunset
Park and 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 economicagency
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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