Ferries from Midtown West 39th St-Pier 79

This is the NYC Ferry berth at Pier 79 on Manhattan’s West Side, and it is worth being clear about which terminal you want: a second Midtown ferry listing at West 39th Street belongs to NY Waterway, a different company at a different berth. Turning up at the wrong one is an easy mistake and a long walk.

Eighty departures, all on one crossing

Everything we hold here runs to and from Brookfield Place Terminal in the Financial District: 40 departures in each direction. Southbound sailings are timetabled at 15 minutes and northbound at 12 — the same water, a three-minute difference, worth taking the longer figure if you are connecting at the far end.

From twenty past six in the morning to ten at night

Departures from Pier 79 run 06:22 to 21:05; from Brookfield Place they run 06:36 to 22:03. That span, on a twelve-minute crossing, is a commuter service in both directions — up the West Side in the morning, back down in the evening, with the late boats catching people leaving the office rather than tourists.

Weekdays and weekends are separate timetables

The departures split into two clean day patterns: one group runs Monday to Friday, another runs Saturday and Sunday. There is no single all-week schedule, so a departure you used on a Tuesday may not exist on a Sunday and vice versa. Check the day before the hour.

Why there are two Midtown listings

NYC Ferry and NY Waterway both serve Midtown from West 39th Street but operate as separate systems with separate tickets, separate berths and separate schedules. Our data reflects that: this record carries the 80 NYC Ferry departures to Brookfield Place, while the neighbouring Midtown W 39th St record carries NY Waterway’s much sparser service on the same nominal pairing — two sailings each way, at completely different times. They are not alternatives to each other in any practical sense.

The current pattern is dated

These departures are valid from 6 July 2026. NYC Ferry adjusts its schedules seasonally and publishes service changes ahead of time, so confirm before building a commute around a specific sailing — particularly on the weekend pattern, which is the one that moves most.