Newburgh ferry dock (file)
NEWBURGH – Ferry service between the cities of Newburgh and Beacon is run on weekdays during morning and evening commuter times to afford residents of Newburgh an alternative means to get to the Beacon Metro-North train station rather than driving over the Newburgh-Beacon Bridge. Expanded service is being considered.
New Assemblyman Jonathan Jacobson (D, Newburgh), a former Newburgh city
councilman, said the service could be implemented on special occasions.
“The main thing is on the weekends it is not going to be for people in Beacon coming to Newburgh necessarily, or Newburgh to Beacon that live here, but if you promote the Illumination Festival properly and some of the other festivals or the shopping days – Small Business Saturday after Black Friday – and you promote it properly, people will come up from the city (New York), get off the train in Beacon and then take the ferry and come over,” he said.
Jacobson said Assemblyman and Senator-elect James Skoufis (D, Woodbury) has been working on the project.
The ferry service is under the umbrella of the Metro-North Railroad, which operates the Hudson Line that runs along the river from Poughkeepsie to Grand Central Terminal.
