New York City has received three new 4,500 passenger ferries. The ships were built by Eastern Shipbuilding Group in Florida and towed up the East Coast to NYC by Dann Ocean Towing.

The first new ferry, put into service earlier this year, is named after Staff Sergeant Michael H. Ollis, a Staten Island resident, killed in Afghanistan.

The second ferry was christened ‘Sandy Ground’ in honor of the nation’s oldest continuously inhabited free Black settlement and started service in June, 2022

The third ferry ‘Dorothy Day’ is named after a Staten Island journalist and social activist.