Some residents plan to rally Sunday.
Advocates are once again calling on Mayor Eric Adams to bring ferry service to Canarsie, amid residents’ frustration over a persistent lack of reliable transportation options in the east Brooklyn neighborhood.
“To say he’s for transit equity, to say that Canarsie deserves a ferry, and now being in office almost finishing his first term and not delivering on that promise? It is really frustrating,” said Jibreel Jalloh, founder of the Canarsie-based advocacy group the Flossy Organization. “It doesn’t really jive with the current reality of opening up multiple stops in transit-rich neighborhoods, when you have a transit desert like Canarsie that’s yearning for more ways to get around in reliable ways,” Jalloh said.As borough president, Adams spoke vocally in favor of ferry service to Canarsie, deeming it an equity issue that deserved the city’s attention.
“If we're able to expand, to have a ferry out here, it's a real win,” Adams told a student who asked about the potential for ferry service to Canarsie. “Areas like here — out in parts of Queens, with our transportation deserts … being able to expand and get our next ferry out here would be a huge W for us, but we’ve got to make sure we stabilize the system that we have in place. It’s relatively new.
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