File #: Int 1017-2024    Version: * Name: Study and report on the feasibility of direct ferry service to Coney Island.
Type: Introduction Status: Laid Over in Committee
Committee: Committee on Transportation and Infrastructure
On agenda: 9/12/2024
Enactment date: Law number:
Title: A Local Law in relation to a study and report on the feasibility of direct ferry service to Coney Island
Sponsors: Justin L. Brannan, Lincoln Restler, Mercedes Narcisse, Shahana K. Hanif
Council Member Sponsors: 4
Summary: This bill would require a study on the feasibility of expanding ferry service directly to Coney Island, with particular consideration to study the possible use of the Steeplechase Pier for such ferry service.
Indexes: Report Required
Attachments: 1. Summary of Int. No. 1017, 2. Int. No. 1017, 3. Committee Report 9/10/24, 4. Hearing Testimony 9/10/24, 5. Hearing Transcript 9/10/24, 6. September 12, 2024 - Stated Meeting Agenda
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Int. No. 1017

 

By Council Members Brannan, Restler, Narcisse and Hanif

 

A Local Law in relation to a study and report on the feasibility of direct ferry service to Coney Island

 

Be it enacted by the Council as follows:

 

Section 1. a. Definitions. For the purposes of this local law, the following terms have the following meanings:

Commissioner. The term “commissioner” means the commissioner of transportation.

Department. The term “department” means the department of transportation.

b. Coney Island ferry service feasibility study. The commissioner, in consultation with the department of small business services and the New York city economic development coordination, shall conduct a study on the feasibility of expanding ferry service directly to Coney Island, in the borough of Brooklyn. Through such study, the commissioner shall:

1. Identify potential locations for the siting of a new ferry terminal, whether through construction of a new facility or conversion of an existing facility, in walkable proximity to Coney Island, including consideration of such a terminal being in the waters of Coney Island Channel, on the ocean side of the peninsula, with particular consideration of the possible use of the Steeplechase Pier located west of West 16th Street;

2. Identify local benefits that may result from any such sitings, including the impact on travel times to Manhattan, or other destinations, for nearby residents;

3. Identify logistical challenges involved from any such sitings, including but not limited to any challenges concerning the availability or utility of currently existing piers, and the depth and navigability of such waters;

4. Propose possible solutions, if any, to the identified logistical challenges; and

5. Estimate the projected costs associated with any such sitings and implementation of any proposed solutions to logistical challenges.

c. Report. No later than 1 year after the effective date of this local law, the commissioner shall submit to the mayor and the speaker of the council, and post on the department’s website, a report on the findings of the study required under subdivision b of this section.

§ 2. This local law takes effect immediately.

 

 

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