Editing Brooklyn (section)

===Waterways===
Brooklyn was long a major shipping port, especially at the [[Brooklyn Army Terminal]] and [[Bush Terminal]] in [[Sunset Park, Brooklyn|Sunset Park]]. Most container ship cargo operations have shifted to the New Jersey side of New York Harbor, while the [[Brooklyn Cruise Terminal]] in [[Red Hook, Brooklyn|Red Hook]] is a focal point for New York's growing cruise industry. The ''[[Queen Mary 2]]'', one of the [[List of largest cruise ships|world's largest ocean liners]], was designed specifically to fit under the Verrazzano-Narrows Bridge, the longest suspension bridge in the United States. She makes regular ports of call at the Red Hook terminal on her transatlantic crossings from [[Southampton]], England.<ref name="auto" /> The Brooklyn waterfront formerly employed tens of thousands of borough residents and acted as an incubator for industries across the entire city, and the decline of the port exacerbated Brooklyn's decline in the second half of the 20th century.

In February 2015, Mayor [[Bill de Blasio]] announced that the city government would begin [[NYC Ferry]] to extend ferry transportation to traditionally underserved communities in the city.<ref name=":0" /><ref name="nbcny-hornblower" /> The ferry opened in May 2017,<ref name="nydailynews.com" /><ref name=":14">{{Cite news|url=https://www.nytimes.com/2017/05/01/nyregion/new-york-today-citywide-ferry-service-begins.html|title=New York Today: Our City's New Ferry|last1=Levine|first1=Alexandra S.|date=May 1, 2017|work=The New York Times|access-date=May 1, 2017|last2=Wolfe|first2=Jonathan|issn=0362-4331}}</ref> offering commuter services from the western shore of Brooklyn to Manhattan via three routes. The [[East River Ferry]] serves points in [[Lower Manhattan]], [[Midtown Manhattan|Midtown]], [[Long Island City]], and northwestern Brooklyn via its East River route. The South Brooklyn and Rockaway routes serve southwestern Brooklyn before terminating in lower Manhattan. Ferries to Coney Island are also planned.<ref name="auto" /> [[NY Waterway]] offers tours and charters. [[SeaStreak]] also offers a weekday ferry service between the Brooklyn Army Terminal and the Manhattan ferry slips at [[Pier 11/Wall Street]] downtown and [[East 34th Street Ferry Landing]] in midtown. A [[Cross-Harbor Rail Tunnel]], originally proposed in the 1920s as a core project for the then-new [[Port Authority of New York]] is again being studied and discussed as a way to ease freight movements across a large swath of the metropolitan area.{{wide image|Manhattan Bridge Panorama.JPG|1500px|alt= Manhattan Bridge|Manhattan Bridge seen from [[Brooklyn Bridge Park]]}}