Red Hook Residents Testify at NY City Council Meeting in Favor of Bill Requiring Cruise Ships to Use Shore Power

[njhorseman]

https://brooklyneagle.com/articles/2024/02/16/red-hook-residents-back-bill-requiring-ships-to-use-shore-power/

[Brighton Line]

The bill covers both ports Manhattan and Brooklyn. Manhattan doesn't even have shore power and Brooklyn's does not match what MSC has on board hence the NYCEDC opposition to the the bill as the NYCEDC would have to find a way to pay for the upgrade at both ports with Manhattan handling up to four ships at a time.

 

This bill would also require EDC as a  condition of the contract with the city’s cruise terminals upon provision of a community traffic mitigation plan prior to allowing access. These community traffic mitigation plans would outline measures to reduce the traffic, noise, and pollution caused by increased activity at cruise terminals.

 

Brooklyn terminal has been there since 2006 and the Manhattan has been having cruise ships dock there for over a hundred years in one form or another since 1920 (Piers 84 to 94 now only 88-92).

Not like you didn't know curise ships arrived at these ports.