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Gothamist A non-profit newsroom, powered by WNYC. Gothamist Listen Live Donate News NYC PLANS 6 NEW WATERFRONT SHIPPING HUBS TO REPLACE TRUCK FREIGHT WITH BARGES -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- By Ramsey Khalifeh Published Feb 11, 2024 at 2:23 p.m. ET 9 comments -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Share FacebookTwitterRedditEmail -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Never miss a story Email address By submitting your information, you're agreeing to receive communications from New York Public Radio in accordance with our Terms . Dominik Bindl/Getty Images -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- By Ramsey Khalifeh Published Feb 11, 2024 at 2:23 p.m. ET 9 comments -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Share FacebookTwitterRedditEmail -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- We rely on your support to make local news available to all Make your contribution now and help Gothamist thrive in 2024. Donate today Gothamist is funded by sponsors and member donations New York City officials plan to turn six waterfront locations into maritime shipping hubs as a way to handle the booming number of e-commerce deliveries across the five boroughs. Details of the initiative were published on Friday through a request for proposals by the city Economic Development Corporation. It marks the latest step in Mayor Eric Adams’ “Blue Highways” plan to shift more of the city’s freight off the streets and onto the rivers and harbors. The request seeks an engineering firm to design barge landings and access points where e-bikes and small delivery vehicles can transport cargo for the “last mile” of its journey. The locations include: * McGinnis Cement Terminal in the the Bronx’s Hunts Point neighborhood * Stuyvesant Cove adjacent to StuyTown * Pier 36 on the Lower East Side * Downtown Manhattan Heliport in the Financial District * The 23rd Street basin and 29th Street apron on Brooklyn’s Gowanus Bay The EDC in its request estimates the plan would take 6,240 short-haul trucks off the streets, and states the city’s “overreliance on trucks negatively impacts air quality, traffic, quality of life and safety.” The plan would save more than 92 million miles of truck travel and 8.3 million gallons of fuel every year, according to the request. Julie Tighe, president of the New York League of Conservation Voters, said in a statement that shifting freight to waterways would reduce air pollution — but warned it's not totally environmentally friendly. "Like most on-road transportation, freight boats run on some of the dirtiest fuels in the market," said Tighe. "The only way to meet our emissions reductions goals is by passing a clean fuel standard at the state level, which would put a serious dent in our emissions output nd result in cleaner are for New Yorkers on day one." The release of the EDC's plan comes less than a month after the mayor proposed a new government agency to rein in delivery companies like Amazon. A report published by the city three years ago estimated that 2.7 million e-commerce packages would be delivered in the city every day in 2024 — nearly twice as many as in 2018. New York City’s waterways were once global shipping hubs, but the bulk of the waterfront jobs disappeared over the last century as most of the region’s large container ports became consolidated in New Jersey. Now, the bulk of the New York City-bound cargo offloaded in the Garden State makes its way across the Hudson River via truck. Manhattan Rep. Jerrold Nadler has for decades advocated for the construction of a new freight tunnel between New Jersey and Brooklyn to help solve that problem — but that proposal continues to await federal approval. After being stalled for years, the Port Authority restored work on an environmental study for the plan in 2022. Tagged transportation manhattan bronx brooklyn -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Ramsey Khalifeh Ramsey Khalifeh is a general assignment reporter on the NYC Accountability desk covering the city's most powerful institutions and the work they do (or don't). He was previously a summer intern on the Day-of desk and also worked at the Boston Globe's metro and copy desk. Got a tip? Email rkhalifeh@nypublicradio.org Read more Gothamist is funded by sponsors and member donations -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Gothamist is funded by sponsors and member donations -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- MORE news Mayor Adams imposes curfew at select NYC migrant shelters after Times Square shooting The curfew will be instituted at 20 migrant shelter sites on Monday. By Giulia Heyward and Ramsey Khalifeh Published Feb 11, 2024 at 3:52 p.m. ET 3 comments -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Early voting ends Sunday in NY-03 with snowstorm possible on Election Day Voters have until Sunday evening to cast their ballots before Election Day. 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