Editing Queens (section)

====Water transit====
{{main|East 34th Street Ferry Landing}}
[[File:Small tankers unload in Newtown Creek jeh.jpg|left|thumb|upright=1|[[Newtown Creek]] with the [[Midtown Manhattan]] skyline in the background]]
[[New York Water Taxi]] operates service across the [[East River]] from [[Hunters Point, Queens|Hunters Point]] in Long Island City to Manhattan at [[34th Street (Manhattan)|34th Street]] and south to Pier 11 at [[Wall Street]]. In 2007, limited weekday service was begun between [[Breezy Point, Queens|Breezy Point]], the westernmost point in the Rockaways, to Pier 11 via the [[Brooklyn Army Terminal]]. Summertime weekend service provides service from Lower Manhattan and southwest Brooklyn to the peninsula's [[Gateway National Recreation Area|Gateway]] beaches.

In the [[Effects of Hurricane Sandy in New York|aftermath]] of [[Hurricane Sandy]] on October 29, 2012, ferry operator [[SeaStreak]] began running a city-subsidized ferry service between a makeshift ferry slip at Beach 108th Street and [[Beach Channel Drive]] in [[Rockaway Park]] and piers in Manhattan and Brooklyn.<ref name="SeaStreak-info" /> The service was extended multiple times.<ref name="DNAinfo-NY 2014 Jan 20" /> finally ending on October 31, 2014.<ref name="NY1 2014 Nov 1" />

In February 2015, Mayor [[Bill de Blasio]] announced that the city government would begin a citywide ferry service called [[NYC Ferry]] to extend ferry transportation to communities in the city that have been traditionally underserved by public transit.<ref name="NYTs 2016 Jun 15" /><ref name="WNBC 2016 Mar 16" /> The ferry opened in May 2017,<ref name="NYDaily 2017 May 1" /><ref name="NYTs 2017 May 1" /> with the Queens neighborhoods of Rockaway and Astoria served by their eponymous routes. A third route, the [[East River Ferry]], serves [[Hunter's Point South]].<ref name="NYC-Ferry 2021 Aug 23" />