In terms of punctuality, 88.9 percent of boats were on time in the first four months of the fiscal year, consistent with the overall fiscal year 2012 result, but a 4.3 percentage point improvement over the same time period the previous year.
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Staten Island Ferry. For the cocktail, see Staten Island Ferry (cocktail). The Staten Island Ferry is a passenger ferry service operated by the New York City Department of Transportation. It runs 5.2 miles (8.4 km) in New York Harbor between the New York City boroughs of Manhattan and Staten Island. The ferry operates 24/7.
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The Richmond Turnpike Company is the direct ancestor of the current municipal ferry, the Staten Island Ferry. In 1817 the Richmond Turnpike Company began to run the first mechanically powered ferry between New York and Staten Island, the steam-powered Nautilus.
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Staten Island Ferry costs taxpayers $4.86 per passenger, per trip. View full size Despite the huge cost of running the Staten Island Ferry, the city Department of Transportation says that the boat will continue to be free and that no plans are being explored to develop a fare.
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Soon after Staten Island joined New York City in 1898, ferry service between St. George and Whitehall was transferred to the city Department of Docks and Ferries on October 25th 1905 and five new ferries -- one named for each of the five boroughs -- were commissioned.
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The Staten Island Ferry is run by the City of New York for one pragmatic reason: To transport Staten Islanders to and from Manhattan. Yet, the 5 mile, 25 minute ride also provides a majestic view of New York Harbor and a no-hassle, even romantic, boat ride, for free!
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In the last fiscal year, the Staten Island Ferry cost taxpayers $4.86 per passenger, each way - a 57 percent increase from ten years earlier, when the per-passenger cost was $3.10, according to data released by the city. It adds up to an annual ferry budget of about $108 million.
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On Staten Island, the ferry arrives and departs from the St. George Ferry Terminal on Richmond Terrace, near Richmond County's Borough Hall and Supreme Court. Service is provided 24 hours a day, 365 days a year, and is punctual 96% of the time.
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The report notes that despite the suspension of service for the last four days of October due to Hurricane Sandy, ferry ridership from July-October is slightly ahead of the figure from the same period a year earlier. Total ferry ridership in Fiscal Year 2012 was 22.178 million, the highest in about a generation.
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Today the Staten Island Ferry provides 22 million people a year (70,000 passengers a day not including weekend days) with ferry service between St. George on Staten Island and Whitehall Street in lower Manhattan. The ferry is the only non-vehicular mode of transportation between Staten Island and Manhattan.
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how much it cost to board the staten island ferry
It costs $4.86 per passenger to board the Staten Island Ferry.