A ferry in New York City. NYC’s Economic Development Corporation is currently seeking proposals for a barge service between Brooklyn and the Bronx, which officials want to transport at least 100 freight containers per day. | starlings_images
New York City is working on a “blue highways” program that will someday move thousands of freight deliveries from trucks to boats, reducing street congestion and air pollution. The first boat in service, a 55-years vessel that still has its original diesel engine, is the beginning of “what city planners hope is a shipping revolution,” Liam Quigley writes for Gothamist.
The boat currently transports produce in a refrigerated container between Hunts Point and Manhattan. Ilana Mayid-Dennis, president of the company operating the freight boat, said she hopes the boat will one day be joined by hundreds more transporting cargo through NYC’s waterways…