City officials and ferry riders are expressing optimism as NYC Ferry considers a new Bay Ridge stop on the St. George route.

You know that the Staten Island Ferry is free, but you secretly exult when clueless tourists get scammed into paying for it.

Doody's Home Center was built here on Staten Island in 1968 after the completion of the Verrazano-Narrows Bridge.

As of 6:30 p.m. Tuesday, 3,521 customers in the city were without power, including 1,290 in Queens, 1,513 in Brooklyn, 80 in the Bronx and 47 on Staten Island, according to Con Edison's outage map.