The Mexican Navy ship that crashed into the Brooklyn Bridge, killing two sailors and injuring about two dozen others aboard last month, was being moved Friday across the East River so it could be repaired.

New York City officials said the damaged vessel’s relocation from Pier 36 on the Lower East Side to the Brooklyn Navy Yard would close a southern stretch of the river to traffic from about 6:30 a.m. to 8 a.m., disrupting NYC Ferry service and other maritime activity.

The U.S. Coast Guard was enforcing a safety zone between the Manhattan and Williamsburg bridges to support the operation, which city emergency management officials said was also being coordinated with the NYPD, mayor’s office and Mexican government. About 70 of the ship’s crew members were being transported to the pier fro

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