Greenpoint's Red Star will once again host the Best Wings in Brooklyn competition,this time in association with the East River Ferry. On Saturday, February 25th dozens of the borough's best purveyors will
"throw their wing into the ring" in pursuit of 365 days of bragging rights. The event is FREE to the public, with FREE WINGS all day long, beginning at 2:00pm. The event which is also sponsored in part by Yelp, The Brooklyn paper, and Brooklyn Exposed, will donate a portion of the proceeds to the Dr. Theodore Atlas Foundation's boxing program, "Atlas Cops and Kids." Culled from more than 40 nominees (solicited via facebook, local bloggers, are foodies, etc.) this year's line-up, competing for two separate prizes; the People's Choice Awards and the Judges Award, to be presented by Brooklyn Borough President and wing aficionado Marty Markowitz, will feature neighborhood favorites from Crown Heights, Park Slope, Williamsburg, Bay Ridge, Ditmas Park,Greenpoint, Red Hook, and many others. ....more
Before we completely forget about the Giants Super Bowl victory, due to all the recent excitement regarding Linsanity, we'd like to congratulate the East River Ferry winner of the Super Bowl XLVI contest. It was Jennifer Artale of Greenpoint. Jennifer, who has been a local resident since 2001 is a regular ferry traveler, mostly using the India Street terminal, because it's so close to where she lives with her husband and three crazy cats. When contacted about her winning, Jennifer told us, "I've used the ferry from the very beginning. It's been a wonderful experience having the ferry. You can't beat the views and the convenience. I recommend it now to anyone that is visiting NYC." However it appears that Jennifer isn't the only winner here. It seems that her (loving) husband bought her an iPad2 a couple of months ago as a gift... so guess who gets this one. (Early birthday gift perhaps?) Congratulations to Jennifer and thanks again to everyone who played... and a special thanks to everyone who has supported the East River Ferry since we started operations last June. We're looking forward to some great things in 2012. In conclusion, Jennifer said, "The East River Ferry are Giants in my book." Is that too corny? You bet it is, but we'll take the compliment anyhow.
Out of the hundreds of entrees we received, only one person was skilled (lucky!) enough to come up with the final score of the Super Bowl...thus eliminating the need to go deeper into the tie-breaker questions. Thanks to his accurate prediction (guess!) Gerald Dillon, of Jackson Heights is now the proud owner of an iPad2 compliments of NY Waterway & The East River Ferry. NOTE: Gerald won the NY Waterway contest. The winner of the East River Ferry contest is yet to be announced, pending verification. Gerald is a regular traveler on the ferry route from Long Island City/Hunters Point to Pier 11/Wall St. He refers to the ferry as....more
By Jon Steinberg
Since it launched in June, the East River Ferry, which currently stops at seven sites along the Manhattan, Brooklyn, and Queens riverfront, has transported nearly 600,000 people. That is 200,000 more riders than the city anticipated in the ferry’s entire first year. And yet, hopping aboard one of the ferries, you feel as if you’ve chartered your own private pleasurecraft.. . . more