![]() ![]() ![]() The Roosevelt Island east side passage was painless, with the bridge tender quite accommodating. There were Coast Guard cutters and NYPD boats stationed at either end of the passage to the west side of Roosevelt Island I have no idea how you’d manage to sneak past the relative barricade but if you did, one of the 2 choppers circling the area might shoot you down. Sleuthing on what, exactly triggers a full closure, has me thinking that it’s when the President of the United States is addressing the General Assembly - and this is also when the heliport area is closed, but that’s an observation of one year and may be just a fluke. Figure on closure, at least of the west channel next to Roosevelt Island, for much of that time. The United Nations publishes the dates of their General Assembly sessions reasonably promptly. If Zone 3 is closed, they’re not allowed to open they will know. That number, which goes directly to the bridge, is (646) 899-0441. The first notice was dated September 9, about a week before we first called the Coast Guard about closures and were told “no idea, Google it” AND a full week before the Notice to Mariners had zero information published.Ĭall the Roosevelt Island Bridge to see if they’re opening. Local Notice to Mariners was of absolutely no assistance - but these advisory notices had it all. Google “ Coast Guard Advisory Notice 2021” (or whatever year). If you’re thinking about transiting New York City by boat when the United Nations General Assembly is in session, here is how we found the information in 2021. Watching on AIS showed us that sailboats were, in fact, going through that bridge. All we needed to do was get the 40’ clearance bridge on Roosevelt Island to open. But the rest of the time? Looked like maybe it was open. Definitely closed from 9-12 on September 21. ![]() Zone 2 was closed from 7am -7pm all days that week. Add to this the area next to the Wall Street heliport, all the way across the river, would also be closed.Ĭlose reading gave us hope. Zone 3 is the east side of Roosevelt Island. The zones were pretty clear - Zone 1 is right next to the western bank, with Zone 2 the remainder of the west passage around Roosevelt Island. But was it really? The notice was confusing. “How? Where?” “Can you share?”Īnd at first glance, it looked indeed like in essence, the East River from just south of Hell Gate to the southern tip of Roosevelt Island was closed entirely to navigation during daytime for the entire week of September 20-24. ![]() Wouldn’t you think that if you’re going to close a major river around a major city to navigation you’d be telling the world about it, loudly and repeatedly? It felt like this information was a state secret.įinally, in Block Island, on September 18, cruising friends offhandedly mentioned that they’d found the information. As we got closer to the western end of Long Island Sound and started hearing Coast Guard Sector New York on the radio, there was no information shared about closure. There was nothing in the Coast Guard Local Notice to Mariners, edition September 15-22. A friend spent a good part of her (good internet) morning trying unsuccessfully to track this down for us. Google it.” Contacting the New York Department of Transportation resulted in a “we think there will be gridlock around the United Nations while it’s in session.” Jeremy left (unanswered) messages with the Port Authority. Calling the Coast Guard (sector New York) netted a “We have no idea. Finding the details of this is ridiculously impossible. First of all ,you need to figure out if you even need to worry about a closure. ![]()
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