Cruises leaving from New York City, NY

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The new Red Hook cruise pier, Brooklyn, across the harbor from lower Manhattan. By car, the spot is easily accessible to locals as well as to visitors flying into any of the local area airports. While Red Hook itself is heavily industrial, it's just minutes from picturesque Colonial-era Brooklyn Heights and the great expanse of the Brooklyn Bridge. Cruises leaving from New York City and departing from New York area will quickly be a growing segment of the cruise industry.

Recently, a first came to Brooklyn when the world's biggest passenger ship sailed into the new Red Hook Pier. The Cunard cruise lines, Queen Mary 2 will be the first cruise ship to leave from or depart from the new pier in Brooklyn, New York. The cruise line and ship plan for over ten cruise visits to this newly remodeled cruise pier.

In 2004, Carnival Cruise Line and Norwegian Cruise Lines signed agreements with New York City that guarantee at least 13 million visitors and $200 million in port charges to the city through 2017. As for now, however, only Cunard and Princess cruise lines plan to make Red Hook their New York cruise home port.

The local authorities are pushing for more cruises to come and depart from the New York City and Manhattan area in the near future. Cruises from New York City and cruise departing from New York are fast becoming a very popular method of holidays and vacations.

Red Hook cruise pier will now offer an alternative to the cruise ships and cruise lines when coming to and from the northeast and vying for cruise ship terminal space. For cruise passengers, Red Hook will give them one more option when it comes to selecting a place to cruise from or depart on a cruise from the New York area.

New York has begun an overhaul of the 70-year-old cruise passenger ship terminal on the West Side of Manhattan, which with its forbidding, industrial-like exterior, relatively narrow berths and antiquated waiting rooms has long needed an update.

In Manhattan, the biggest hurdle at the existing cruise ship terminal, which sits along the Hudson River between West 47th and 53rd Streets, has long been a lack of space. Built in the early 1930's and last renovated in the early 1970's, the facility now has three finger piers - Piers 88, 90 and 92 - that are about 1,000 feet long and about 400 feet apart. A terminal building sits atop each.

The piers provide a total of five berths, but they were designed when cruise ships were often only about 80 feet in width. Modern ships now average about 136 feet, with some as wide as 142 feet. As a result, two modern vessels can no longer fit comfortably in the same slip between two of Manhattan's piers.

The city wants to redesign the Manhattan cruise terminal to handle only three ships at a time, at Piers 88 and 90, but with more berth space for each ship. Pier 92 and its building will continue to be used through 2008, but over the next year the Economic Development Corporation will evaluate other uses for it.

Cruise Schedule

Norwegian Dawn - 3/26/07, 4/07/07, 4/16/07, 4/26/07, 5/07/07, 5/07/07, 5/10/07, 5/13/07, 5/20/07, 5/27/07, 6/03/07, 6/10/07, 6/17/07, 6/24/07, 7/01/07, 7/08/07, 7/15/07, 7/22/07, 7/29/07, 8/05/07, 8/12/07, 8/19/07, 8/26/07, 9/02/07, 9/09/07, 9/16/07, 9/23/07, 9/30/07, 10/07/07, 10/14/07, 10/15/07, 10/22/07, 10/26/07, 10/29/07, 11/12/07, 11/16/07, 11/19/07, 11/26/07, 12/07/07, 12/17/07, 12/28/07

Norwegian Spirit - 3/26/07, 4/02/07, 4/09/07, 4/16/07, 4/23/07, 4/30/07, 5/07/07, 5/14/07, 5/20/07, 5/28/07, 6/03/07, 6/11/07, 6/17/07, 6/18/07, 6/24/07, 7/02/07, 7/08/07, 7/16/07, 7/22/07, 7/30/07, 8/05/07, 8/13/07, 8/19/07, 8/27/07, 9/02/07, 9/10/07, 9/16/07, 9/24/07, 9/30/07, 10/08/07, 10/19/07, 10/29/07, 11/09/07, 11/19/07, 11/30/07, 12/10/07, 12/21/07

Norwegian Crown - 6/25/07, 7/02/07, 7/09/07, 7/16/07, 7/23/07, 7/30/07, 8/07/07, 8/20/07, 8/27/07, 9/03/07, 9/10/07, 9/17/07, 9/24/07, 10/01/07, 10/08/07, 10/15/07, 10/22/07, 10/29/07

Norwegian Pride of Hawaii - 4/19/07, 4/20/07, 4/21/07, 4/23/07

Carnival Legend - 4/20/07, 4/26/07, 5/04/07, 5/12/07, 5/20/07, 5/28/07, 6/05/07, 6/13/07, 6/21/07, 6/29/07, 7/07/07, 7/15/07, 7/23/07, 7/31/07, 8/08/07, 8/16/07, 8/24/07, 9/01/07, 9/09/07, 9/17/07, 9/25/07, 10/03/07, 10/11/07, 10/19/07

Carnival Victory - 6/13/07, 6/17/07, 6/22/07, 6/26/07, 7/01/07, 7/07/07, 7/10/07, 7/15/07, 7/20/07, 7/24/07, 7/29/07, 8/03/07, 8/07/07, 8/12/07, 8/17/07, 8/21/07, 8/26/07, 8/31/07, 9/04/07, 9/09/07, 9/16/07, 9/23/07, 9/30/07, 10/07/07

Holland America ms Noordam - 3/25/07, 4/05/07, 4/15/07, 10/25/07, 11/04/07, 11/15/07, 11/25/07, 12/07/07, 12/16/07, 12/27/07

Holland America ms Prinsendam - 4/23/07

Holland America ms Maasdam - 5/04/07

Holland America ms Amsterdam - 5/09/07, 9/07/07, 9/27/07, 10/17/07

Cunard Queen Mary 2 - 6/04/07, 6/09/07

Cunard Queen Elizabeth 2

Crystal Symphony - 9/04/07, 9/14/07, 9/21/07, 9/28/07, 10/20/07, 10/31/07

Costa Magica - 5/08/07, 5/09/07

Aurora - 9/22/07

Parking at the Port of New York is $24 per day and the rates subject to change by the Port Authority. Prices and information are subject to change without notice at any time.

The parking facilities feature:

Open rooftop, gated, outdoor parking lot under 24-hour patrol.

Full payment due upon entering the parking area.
Accepted forms of payment: U.S. Dollars; U.S. Traveler's Checks.

No advance reservations required.

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