The New York City Department of Transportation (DOT) today announced the addition of three weekday Staten Island Ferry runs. Beginning July 28, 2005, half-hour ferry service will be available between 5am and 6am with the introduction of a 5:30am boat from the St. George ferry terminal in Staten Island. Between 7am and 8am a fourth boat will be added to provide service every fifteen minutes. Half-hour service will also be extended until 1:30am, Monday-Friday, with the addition of a new 1am boat from the Whitehall terminal in Manhattan.

Within 18 months DOT will further upgrade its weekend ferry service with the addition of half-hour service between 6am and 11am on Saturdays and half-hour service between 9am and 11am on Sundays. Currently half-hour service on Saturdays and Sunday's begins at 11am.

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