{"id":114166,"date":"2026-01-27T19:35:09","date_gmt":"2026-01-27T19:35:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/114166\/"},"modified":"2026-01-27T19:35:09","modified_gmt":"2026-01-27T19:35:09","slug":"all-nyc-ferry-service-suspended-as-arctic-temperatures-freeze-east-and-hudson-rivers-brooklyn-paper","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/114166\/","title":{"rendered":"All NYC Ferry service suspended as Arctic temperatures freeze East and Hudson rivers \u2022 Brooklyn Paper"},"content":{"rendered":"

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All New York City Ferry service is suspended Tuesday as freezing temperatures cause thick ice to build up in the city\u2019s rivers. <\/p>\n

File photo courtesy of Michael Appleton\/Mayoral Photography Office<\/p>\n

Train and bus service are recovering from the weekend\u2019s snowstorm<\/a>, but Arctic weather is causing issues for New York City\u2019s more fluid form of transit: the ferry.<\/p>\n

All NYC Ferry service was suspended starting 2 p.m. on Tuesday, Jan. 27 due to thick ice in the East River and the Hudson River, the agency announce<\/a>d just before 1:30 p.m. By the time the announcement was made, final trips on all routes had already set sail.<\/p>\n

On Tuesday morning, ice at four ferry landings \u2014 including the Brooklyn Navy Yard and Atlantic Avenue\/Pier 6-Brooklyn Bridge Park \u2014 was thick enough to prevent boats from docking, forcing ferries to skip those stops. A number of ferry trips on the East River routes were also canceled on Tuesday morning.<\/p>\n

Conditions continued to deteriorate throughout the day, with \u201csignificant, continuing ice build-up in the East and Hudson Rivers and across New York Harbor,\u201d an NYC Ferry spokesperson told Brooklyn Paper.\u00a0<\/p>\n

\"iceIce build up in the East River, as seen from the Staten Island ferry on Tuesday.Photo by Michael O\u2019Neil<\/p>\n

\u201cOperating in heavy ice conditions requires slow speeds and little to no notice regarding landing service suspension,\u201d NYC Ferry wrote on X<\/a>. \u201cNYC Ferry crew will continue to monitor evolving waterway conditions and prepare the fleet to ensure service can resume once conditions improve.\u201d<\/p>\n

But, the spokesperson warned, the ferry suspension may last for several days, depending on weather conditions.\u00a0\n<\/p>\n

\u201cWe will provide ongoing updates regarding resumption of service as soon as it is safely possible to do so,\u201d the spokesperson added.\n<\/p>\n

Temperatures plummeted on Saturday night and are expected to remain unseasonably low through the weekend, according to the National Weather Service<\/a>. Highs on Tuesday were expected to reach just 22 degrees Fahrenheit, with wind chill values hovering in the single digits and expected to drop even further after sunset.<\/p>\n

The rest of the week will look much the same, with a slight reprieve \u2014 a high near 31 degrees Fahrenheit \u2014 predicted for next Monday.\u00a0\n<\/p>\n

This is a breaking news story and will be updated.\u00a0<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"All New York City Ferry service is suspended Tuesday as freezing temperatures cause thick ice to build up…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":114167,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[36],"tags":[98,100,14261,99,8108,20722,3376,2035,50724,9,24,50725,12,370,63,6501,20808,142,608,133],"class_list":["post-114166","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-brooklyn","tag-brooklyn","tag-brooklyn-headlines","tag-brooklyn-navy-yard","tag-brooklyn-news","tag-east-river","tag-freezing-temperatures","tag-hudson-river","tag-ice","tag-ne","tag-new-york","tag-new-york-city","tag-new-york-city-ferry","tag-news","tag-newsletter","tag-nyc","tag-nyc-ferry","tag-temperatures","tag-transit","tag-transportation","tag-weather"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/114166","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=114166"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/114166\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/114167"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=114166"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=114166"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=114166"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}