NY Ferry Grounded The U.S. Coast Guard responded yesterday to a report of a ferry vessel aground near Liberty Island. The Golden Sunshine, a 90-foot tourist transport based in New Jersey, ran ...

A Staten Island Ferry fire forced more than 800 passengers to be evacuated in New York Harbor near the Statue of Liberty.

The ferry was able to make it to Staten Island and all the passengers were brought to the St. George Ferry Terminal. FDNY officials said 868 passengers and 16 crew members were onboard at the time.

Since the city gets a cut of the ferry operator’s concessions, it’s losing more than $2.3 million annually by not enforcing vending rules in Battery Park, estimated Burke.