File #: Int 1306-2025    Version: * Name: Establishing ferry service between St. George and Bay Ridge.
Type: Introduction Status: Committee
Committee: Committee on Transportation and Infrastructure
On agenda: 6/11/2025
Enactment date: Law number:
Title: A Local Law to amend the administrative code of the city of New York, in relation to establishing ferry service between St. George and Bay Ridge
Sponsors: Kamillah Hanks, Justin L. Brannan, Frank Morano
Council Member Sponsors: 3
Summary: This bill would require the establishment of a regular ferry service connecting St. George in the borough of Staten Island to Bay Ridge in the borough of Brooklyn.
Attachments: 1. Summary of Int. No. 16306, 2. Int. No. 1306, 3. June 11, 2025 - Stated Meeting Agenda

Int. No. 1306

 

By Council Members Hanks, Brannan and Morano

 

A Local Law to amend the administrative code of the city of New York, in relation to establishing ferry service between St. George and Bay Ridge

 

Be it enacted by the Council as follows:

 

Section 1. Chapter 3 of title 19 of the administrative code of the city of New York is amended by adding a new section 19-309 to read as follows:

§ 19-309 Ferry service required. a. The mayor shall ensure that regular ferry service is provided connecting St. George in the borough of Staten Island to Bay Ridge in the borough of Brooklyn and shall designate either a city agency or a contracted entity, as such term is defined in 22-821, to manage or operate such service.

b. Such service shall be open to the public and be integrated with the city’s existing ferry system to the maximum extent practicable.

§ 2. This local law takes effect 1 year after it becomes law.

 

 

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5/6/2025