{"id":10744,"date":"2025-10-21T14:52:10","date_gmt":"2025-10-21T14:52:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/10744\/"},"modified":"2025-10-21T14:52:10","modified_gmt":"2025-10-21T14:52:10","slug":"colin-jost-and-pete-davidson-pay-a-lot-to-do-nothing-with-their-ferry","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/10744\/","title":{"rendered":"Colin Jost and Pete Davidson pay a lot to do nothing with their ferry"},"content":{"rendered":"

It\u2019s safe to say Colin Jost was right when he called his decision<\/a> to buy a decommissioned Staten Island ferry<\/a> with Pete Davidson \u201cthe dumbest and least thought-through purchase I\u2019ve ever made in my life.\u201d In the public eye, both men have spent years dealing with joke after joke at their expense<\/a>. (Even Jost\u2019s wife Scarlett Johansson couldn\u2019t resist getting in on the action<\/a>.) Behind the scenes, however, the impulse buy is costing the two a lot more than jokes.\u00a0<\/p>\n

Jost, Davidson, and a group of investors initially spent $280,100 on the boat in 2022. Now, a report from The New York Times<\/a> claims the comedians are out hundreds of thousands more just from letting the boat rust in a Staten Island slip. First, there are the docking fees, which the president of the shipyard suggested are over $10,000 per month, adding that it\u2019s \u201cunusual\u201d for a boat to languish so long without any repairs made. NYT estimates that at this point, storage fees for the ferry have likely exceeded $600,000 alone, and that\u2019s not to mention the approximately $1,700 per hour Jost and Davidson had to pay a tugboat company to drag the ship to the dock in the first place.<\/p>\n

Those much-needed repairs won\u2019t come cheap, either. Before the ship\u2019s not-so-proud owners can even conceive of enacting their $35 million plan to turn it into a floating entertainment complex, all the asbestos in its walls needs to be removed. \u201cIt has to be done in hazmat gear,\u201d said Patrick Quincannon, the president of a New York-based ship broker. \u201cYou\u2019re looking at salty numbers to do asbestos remediation.\u201d Even the asbestos might not be the biggest of Jost and Davidson\u2019s problems. Titanic 2, the (aptly named) LLC they set up with their co-investors is currently being sued by the law firm it hired to deal with its docking and towing contracts for nonpayment in the amount of $13,500. At this point, Jost and Davidson probably can\u2019t even sell the ship for parts without ending up owing someone money to destroy it. As Quincannon put it, \u201cThey\u2019re paying out a lot to have this thing just sitting there while they figure out what to do.\u201d<\/p>\n

One day, we may see a shiny, new, asbestos-free entertainment center floating proudly in the East River. Davidson, for his part, hasn\u2019t given up<\/a> on that dream. (He said as much on a recent episode of Hot Ones<\/a>.) For now, though, The New York Times\u2018 breakdown<\/a> of all this mess is pretty entertaining in itself. <\/p>\n

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