{"id":13695,"date":"2013-12-12T14:10:15","date_gmt":"2013-12-12T14:10:15","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.urban75.org\/blog\/?p=13695"},"modified":"2013-12-12T16:26:25","modified_gmt":"2013-12-12T16:26:25","slug":"a-trip-on-the-east-river-ferry-from-williamsburg-to-e-34th-st-new-york","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.urban75.org\/blog\/a-trip-on-the-east-river-ferry-from-williamsburg-to-e-34th-st-new-york\/","title":{"rendered":"A trip on the East River Ferry from Williamsburg to E 34th St, New York"},"content":{"rendered":"

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Connecting Wall Street with Brooklyn Bridge Park\/DUMBO, Williamsburg, Greenpoint, Long Island City and Midtown Manhattan, the East River Ferry is an affordable way of getting around New York. And boy is it fast!<\/em><\/p>\n

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We caught the ferry several times, heading both north and south – but this feature documents the trip from the N. 6th Street\/North Williamsburg pier up to the northern terminus at E. 34th Street in Midtown Manhattan.<\/p>\n

Above is a view of the adjacent pier in Williamsburg.<\/p>\n

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Preparing to leave Williamsburg.<\/p>\n

The ferry hurtles along at a near-speedboat velocity, so you’ll soon be hanging on to the handrail!<\/p>\n

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A NYPD boat speeds by.<\/p>\n

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Looking back at Williamsburg Bridge, which opened\u00a0on December 19, 1903.<\/p>\n

For 21 years it boasted the longest suspension bridge span on Earth.<\/p>\n

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Greenpoint water tower in the winter sun.<\/p>\n

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Rusty waterfront buildings.<\/p>\n

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Looking across to Manhattan, with the iconic\u00a0Chrysler Building<\/a> to the left.<\/p>\n

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More Greenpoint views.<\/p>\n

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Looking south at the approach to Long Island City.<\/p>\n

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Empire State building.<\/p>\n

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Long Island City – an area that has seen massive redevelopment in the last ten years.<\/p>\n

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UN building.<\/p>\n

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Arriving at E. 34th Street terminal.<\/p>\n

The ferry runs every day from early morning to early evening – check the full schedule here:\u00a0http:\/\/www.eastriverferry.com\/<\/p>\n

Each one way trip is $4 (plus $1 if you’ve got a bike) and a day pass costs $12 ($15).<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Connecting Wall Street with Brooklyn Bridge Park\/DUMBO, Williamsburg, Greenpoint, Long Island City and Midtown Manhattan, the East River Ferry is an affordable way of getting around New York. And boy … <\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":13697,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2},"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false},"categories":[56,17,193],"tags":[734,733,1199,385,735],"class_list":["post-13695","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-new-york","category-photos","category-places","tag-east-river","tag-ferry","tag-new-york","tag-nyc","tag-transport"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/www.urban75.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/12\/east-river-ferry-new-york-011.jpg","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/pQI7P-3yT","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_likes_enabled":true,"amp_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.urban75.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13695","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.urban75.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.urban75.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.urban75.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.urban75.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=13695"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/www.urban75.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13695\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":13702,"href":"https:\/\/www.urban75.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13695\/revisions\/13702"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.urban75.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/13697"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.urban75.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=13695"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.urban75.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=13695"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.urban75.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=13695"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}