Sixty-one years after the last ferry linking Staten Island and Bay Ridge ended with the opening of the Verrazzano-Narrows Bridge in 1964, ferry service between the two boroughs resumed Dec. 8, with the maiden voyage setting sail at 6:05 a.m.

The St. George route runs about every 37 minutes during peak hours and roughly every 50 minutes during non-peak hours, with stops in western Manhattan at Midtown West/Pier 79 and Battery Park City before reaching Staten Island’s St. George Terminal. Travel time from St. George to Bay Ridge’s ferry slip at the American Veterans Memorial near Owl’s Head Park is approximately 11 minutes. The ferry then continues to the Atlantic Avenue/Pier 6 stop at Brooklyn Bridge Park before its final stop at Pier 11 on Wall Street, where riders can connect to other fe

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