Stranded Rockaways Connected to Manhattan by Ferry

A weekday ferry will run from the peninsula, which is off the east Brooklyn coast and south of JFK Airport, to Manhattan, making stops at Pier 11/Wall Street and East 34th Street.

A section of the washed out tracks on the A line, seen on Oct. 30 shortly after Hurricane Sandy. While the MTA rebuilds the line, a new ferry service will connect Rockaway residents with Manhattan for $2 each way. Leonard Wiggins/MTA New York City Transit

NEW YORK—After the hurricane destroyed hundreds of feet of aboveground subway track that usually serves as the main public transit artery out of the Rockaway Peninsula, many have been stranded there.

Now a weekday ferry will run from the peninsula, which is off the east Brooklyn coast and south of JFK Airport, to Manhattan, making stops at Pier 11/Wall Street and East 34th Street.

“I am very glad to see that the Far Rockaway ferry service is about to be restored and that some degree of normality is about to return to the lives of Rockaway residents,” said Councilman James Sanders Jr. in a statement. “Come Monday, Rockaway residents who work in Manhattan will be able to reliably get to work again, and those who wish to get off the peninsula for the time being will have another route out.”