MTA ferry from Nassau’s South Shore needed, lawmakers say

Todd Kaminsky

Originally published in Newsday

By Christopher Cameron:

Two state lawmakers are urging the Metropolitan Transportation Authority to expand Manhattan-bound ferry services to the South Shore of Nassau County.

State Sen. Todd Kaminsky and Assemb. Melissa Miller held a news conference Sunday at Inwood Park on the shore of Jamaica Bay. In a letter to MTA Chairman Joseph Lhota, Kaminsky and Miller invited officials and commuters to tour potential docking locations for a commuter ferry near Inwood to reduce traffic on roads and crowding on the Long Island Rail Road.

“Long Island as we know it only exists in the way it does because people can live there and get to and from New York City to work,” said Kaminsky (D-Long Beach). “There’s never been a tidal wave of people calling my office about any issue like there has been about the LIRR… It’s just central.”

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