April 30, 2006
A Water Taxi trip through Buttermilk along the QM2
The New York Water Taxi on Saturday resumed East River commuter and hop-on, hop-off service for the season, coinciding with the Queen Mary 2's second visit to her new home port of Brooklyn.
Service from Red Hook, Brooklyn now begins from a dock in front of three vintage trolley cars parked at the soon-to-open Fairway Market. A one-way one-stop $5 ticket will get you to Manhattan's South Street Seaport by way of the Buttermilk Channel.
On the way you'll get up close with the Queen Mary 2, the second-largest cruise ship ever built.
For the trip Saturday, Matt Levy of Vintage NY Tours was on-board answering questions about Governors Island, the Verrazano Bridge and even the abandoned Staten Island Ferry docked at one of the Brooklyn piers visible only from the Buttermilk Channel.
Click on "read the rest of this entry" for more pictures from the Water Taxi trip.
Earlier: 13 more QM2 Brooklyn visits; QE2 due in fall
Queen Mary 2 sets sail from Brooklyn
Queen Mary 2 in Brooklyn at high noon
Queen Mary 2 arrives at Brooklyn Cruise Terminal
Red Hook and Brooklyn Cruise Ship Terminal guide
The bovine history of Brooklyn's Buttermilk Channel
April 30, 2006 07:46 AM in Cheap Stuff, Out of Manhattan, Sightsology, Transportology
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