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. Posted on 04/16/2005 11:45:21 AM PDT by M. Espinola
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.
The new pier will accommodate the 1,132-foot Queen Mary 2 -- the world's largest passenger ship -- plus the 963-foot Queen Elizabeth 2, the Star Princess and the Crown Princess, which makes its debut next year. At the old West Side Passenger Ship Terminal in Manhattan, the stern of the Queen Mary 2 stretches 132 feet beyond the pier into the Hudson River.
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The housing project in the photo is most likely the city's therefore what is owned by the city is open for alterations, if needed.
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We'll colonize the moon before a NY housing project is demolished.
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