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Colin Jost and Pete Davidson\u2019s ferry set sail this weekend, kind of. Wrapped in a Nike billboard (with a giant swoosh and the tagline \u201cNYC WON\u2019T CARRY YOU. IT PUSHES YOU\u201d), the boat, unable to move on its own power, was towed for a little spin around New York Harbor. There\u2019s some joke in that, surely.<\/p>\n
Less than two weeks ago, the New York Times reported<\/a> that the boat\u2019s owners \u2014 the Saturday Night Live boys and a group that also includes an architect and a club promoter \u2014 owe their lawyers $13,500 and may have paid $600,000 to a Staten Island shipyard to store what was essentially \u201can immense bathtub toy, racking up docking fees.\u201d Perhaps this is why the would-be floating club has so far mostly served as advertising space \u2014\u00a0this time for Nike in its marathon-timed campaign, but Tommy Hilfiger rented the ferry last fall for a fashion show, and a horror movie has used it as a set.<\/a> (The aptly titled Screamboat is supposedly getting an aptly titled sequel, Screamboat 2.)<\/p>\n Still, it\u2019s rare to see it on the move. Rare enough that when TJ Smolka, a high-school teacher in Staten Island, first saw it<\/a> getting its reddish-pink makeover last month, he alerted a text group of fellow ferry watchers. Together, they tracked its run through the harbor. Come Monday, he noted that it\u2019s back in its normal dock \u2014 still covered in the Nike banner colors. \u201cI fear now that it\u2019s going to sit there like that,\u201d he said.<\/p>\n Sign Up for the Curbed Newsletter<\/p>\n A daily mix of stories about cities, city life, and our always evolving neighborhoods and skylines.<\/p>\n Vox Media, LLC Terms and Privacy Notice<\/p>\n