The DL&W/EL Ferryboat "Binghamton"

A favorite outing of mine during the 80's was eating at Binghamton's, the restaurant aboard the former Lackawanna ferry at Edgewater but I had been told it's been closed in recent years. I saw the boat still moored in the same location across the river while driving up the west side yesterday and the sight of it brought back some nice memories. In this day and age, we're lucky it's still with us. Does anyone have any information, good or bad, regarding the Binghamton's current status or plans, if any, for it?

Thanks in advance for any updates.

I heard a rumor from this site the current owner wants to move it somewhere? Possibly to hoboken terminal ferry slips. Of the original 6 slips, 5 are being renovated to accomadate current NY waterway ferries. The 6th slip is being renovated back to it's original state as a "legacy slip". I heard a rumor that perhaps she might be the inhabitant of the legacy slip, as a floating musuem or something like that. Not sure if restaurant is still planned or not. I'll include a link.

http://railroad.net/forums/viewtopic.ph ... 90#p941188 Here is the link.

Based on these photos and the captions from a year ago, the future looks bleak....

http://www.railfan.net/lists/erielackph ... Bingo2.jpg

http://www.railfan.net/lists/erielackph ... Bingo1.jpg

Indeed the Binghamton's outlook appears bleak. See the recent photo of the boat's east side posted in this thread from the New Jersey Railfan forum:

http://www.railroad.net/forums/viewtopi ... 5&start=15

The picture is in the first post of Page 2.

Unfortunate.

Wow, the old girl is done. Irene sure hit her hard. Don't know what they can do now.

hurricane sandy sank her to the bottom of the hudson river.

Too bad, I had heard she took on a lot of water in the storm. She deserved a much better fate!

Charlie

Well it's a sad end for a once grand ferry.

A post Sandy image of the Binghamton:

http://www.flickr.com/photos/andrewjbacha/8158240588/

It's unfortunate to see a unique piece of NY railroading history in such an advanced state of decay.

Bob

I found this video of the Binghamton taken as the water rose in advance of the storm:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lYUCtgjF86U

Not pretty.

Bob

Thanks for posting........very sad to see. I wish I had money to burn so it could be fixed!

Charlie