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"Queen Mary 2 to Dock in Brooklyn"
Newsday ^ | April 16th, 2005 | Associated Press
Posted on 04/16/2005 11:45:21 AM PDT by M. Espinola
ARTICLE SNIPPET: "NEW YORK -- Four luxurious passenger ships, including the Queen Mary 2 and the Queen Elizabeth 2, will abandon Manhattan's Hudson River piers and begin docking in Brooklyn next year.
Carnival Corp. will move the berths of the four ships to a huge pier the city is redeveloping in the Red Hook section, city and company officials said.
The city hopes the shift will create thousands of jobs, spur retail and tourist-industry development and breathe new life into what was once a bleak warehouse district, and bring 250,000 more passengers to the city each year on top of the current 900,000."