Friday Headlines: Ferry Tale Edition
The Newburgh-Beacon ferry is making a comeback. The service shut down last year after years of ridership declines, but a grassroots revival campaign on both sides of the Hudson River has brought it back for a weekend pilot.
Service begins at 10 a.m. Saturday, Oct. 3, with 14 daily 15-minute crossings, followed by another 14 on Oct. 4 and Oct. 10-11. Tickets are $1 for all ages.
Elsewhere in The Empire State:
- The city’s plan to rebuild the crumbling BQE could include a temporary highway over the Brooklyn Bridge approach, with new renderings, first reported by Streetsblog NYC, showing a bypass running past Dumbo to the Navy Yard, as Council Member Lincoln Restler warns some neighbors could have traffic 8 feet from their homes and the $4 billion project would take 132,000 square feet of parkland that needs Council and Legislature approval. (Gothamist)
- A terrible BQE exit has inspired a song. (The New York Times)
- An MTA official said it remains unclear how a 57-year-old man got caught in an A train door and dragged to his death at Utica Av on Sept. 28, contradicting early police reports about a bag caught in the doors, while the conductor and train operator are off duty pending MTA and NTSB investigations. (amNewYork)
- Comptroller Tom DiNapoli and Republican challenger Joseph Hernandez clashed in a NY1 debate, with Hernandez questioning $850,000 in donations from law firms tied to the pension fund and opposing Gov. Hochul’s data center moratorium, while DiNapoli, who leads in polls and fundraising, pointed to his record. (NY1)
- President Trump will stump with Bruce Blakeman in Syracuse. (New York Post)
- Syracuse cut its contract with Flock and pulled its license plate readers from city property, but the cameras remain across Onondaga County at the sheriff’s office, suburban police departments, Syracuse University and Baldwinsville schools, as a Senate panel heard critical testimony about the company this week. (Central Current)
- Pittsford is considering tougher rules for e-bikes and scooters. (Democrat and Chronicle)
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