New York City's Newest Cruise Ship Terminal

In Brooklyn, Their Ship Has Come In

It's helping to transform what many considered to be a less-than-desirable section of Brooklyn into a very desirable destination. With its billion dollar view of Manhattan, Atlantic Basin in Red Hook is now home to the Brooklyn Cruise Terminal and 330 new jobs.

The cruise industry's exploding responsible for over $600 million in commerce to the city last year.

Manhattan's West Side passenger ship terminal is booked solid stifling growth for the industry in New York.

Spreading east to Brooklyn will increase the annual number of ship passengers entering the city by a quarter of a million people.

Carnival Cruise lines became the first to use the new Brooklyn terminal with this morning's docking of 'The Oriana' that freshly arrived from England.

Source: ABC 7 eyewitness News Online

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