Feeling left out, Coney Island residents demand ferry service
Mayor Bill de Blasio’s big announcement that the city is pumping $300 million into the ferry system to buy bigger boats didn’t impress Coney Island residents, who charged that the city’s ferry frenzy is unfairly bypassing their waterfront neighborhood.
“I want a ferry. If it’s good enough for Bay Ridge, it’s good enough for us,” Coney Island resident Bertha Thompson told the Brooklyn Eagle on Friday, one day after de Blasio announced expanded service at a press conference in Bay Ridge. “Why do other neighborhoods get all these good things and we don’t?”