Red Hook Prepares for Cruise Shipapalooza
According to one of our favorite publications, Travel Weekly, alerts us to the fact that there will be a ceremonial ribbon cutting ceremony at the Brooklyn Cruise Terminal on April 15th as the Queen Mary 2 anchors off Pier 12. The ceremony celebrates the $150 million the city has sunk into the terminal facilities (including…
According to one of our favorite publications, Travel Weekly, alerts us to the fact that there will be a ceremonial ribbon cutting ceremony at the Brooklyn Cruise Terminal on April 15th as the Queen Mary 2 anchors off Pier 12. The ceremony celebrates the $150 million the city has sunk into the terminal facilities (including the West Side terminal). The big question is will the Red Hook terminal be ready in time? I realize it looks like we have a long way to go, said the project manager for Turner Construction, the company doing the renovation, who didn’t want his name used. But we’re ahead of schedule. Not everyone is optimistic about the terminal’s impact on the neighborhood. It won’t bring me much business, said Arnaud Erhart, co-owner of 360, a French restaurant blocks from the terminal’s entrance. I’ve been looking at the terminal through a chain-link fence. They would need to open it up so there’s actual contact with the neighborhood. I don’t know that they’re ready to do that.
April Ribbon Cutting for Red Hook [Travel Weekly]
If they are going to Manhattan, why do they have to take individual cars? Can’t they take busses (like the airport busses) to major hotels and drop off points. Or have Supper Shuttle do share ride service to/from there?
Or just put in a Water taxi over to Pier 11 in Lower Manhattan and they could have shuttle busses or just pick up a yellow cab from there.
Mass and shared transport should always be considered first and individual cars/cabs as last resort.
I don’t drive and use mass transport to get around NYC as well as any place I travel.
Wow, all you people who are quitting your jobs and opening taxi services and bars are very funny, and clever as well. Maybe you should quit your jobs and become stand up comedians.
Oh, please, the crew on a cruise ship is little different from the crew of a Merchant Marine ship. They come off the boat looking for the classics. Maybe I should quit my job and open up a bar/brothel in Sunset Park – only minutes away!
Sorry, posted too soon. Obviously I misread the part where this refers to only 1/3 of the traffic.
Re the traffic from cabs, keep in mind also that the cruise ship terminals are right by the Battery Tunnel, I’m sure that a good majority of cars will be heading that way as well, or to the Verrazano and Jersey or Long Island for that matter. I don’t think we can assume that everyone getting off the boats will be going straight to Manhattan. A good many might also be heading to LaGuardia.
David, Presumably they’ll all be disembarking at roughly the same time so I’d assume they’d be looking for cabs at roughly the same time. Correct me if I’m mistaken about the logistics — not that you really need an invitation to correct a fellow poster.
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maybe i should quit my job and open up a taxi service. i was thinking that a pedicab business would be fun for red hook to take folks to the subway and bklyn heights.
there’s opportunity here!
as long as they don’t try to squeeze 5000 people on the B61 bus!
Anon – 800-1000 more cars will have zero impact on traffic at the bridges (unless they all reached the bridge at exactly the same instant)
Wouldn’t they just use buses?