Mayor announces 200 new jobs coming with construction of citywide ferry “homeport”
The soon-to-set-sail citywide ferry service will be bringing at least 200 new jobs with it, announced the mayor earlier this month.
According to Mayor Bill de Blasio, the city is now hiring for the first of 200 new jobs that will be come with the five-borough ferry service’s central hub at the Brooklyn Navy Yard, where all boats will be docked, fueled and maintained — and where an additional passenger stop will be added to the East River route — come early 2018.
The new jobs include captains and deckhands.