NEW YORK (AP) — “Saturday Evening Are living” comics Colin Jost and Pete Davidson have bought a decommissioned Staten Island Ferry boat for $280,100 with plans to show it into New York’s most up to date membership.
Jost and Davidson teamed up with comedy membership proprietor Paul Italia on Wednesday’s successful bid for the John F. Kennedy, a 277-foot (84-meter) vessel that shuttled commuters between the New York Town boroughs of Big apple and Staten Island from 1965 till it was once taken out of provider closing August.
“The Staten Island Ferry is surely one thing iconic,” Italia, an actual property investor and co-owner of the eating place and comedy membership The Stand, mentioned Friday. “We would have liked to determine some way to put it aside and to do one thing particular with it.”
Italia mentioned reworking the two,109-ton ferry into an leisure venue will price thousands and thousands of bucks and received’t occur anytime quickly.
“It’s in reality early levels right here,” he mentioned. “You could have a super thought and also you’re operating on executing it and step one is the purchase of the boat, and I believe that that’s the tale at the moment. We had been a hit in obtaining the boat and ensuring it didn’t move into the scrapyard just like the closing two.”
Messages looking for remark had been despatched to representatives of Jost and Davidson, who each grew up on Staten Island and continuously shaggy dog story about their house borough and its best-known mode of shipping.
Named after the thirty fifth U.S. president, the John F. Kennedy was once the oldest ferry within the fleet when it was once decommissioned closing summer time.
The brand new house owners have 10 trade days to safe a spot to dock the vessel and tow it there. “We’re operating on that,” Italia mentioned.
The boat was once auctioned through New York Town’s Division of Citywide Administrative Services and products, and different town departments should log off on running it as a floating nightspot.
It will assist that the town’s new mayor is on board. “I like this concept. What an effective way to provide an NYC icon a 2d existence,” Mayor Eric Adams tweeted Friday.
Adams, who took place of business on Jan. 1 and was once portrayed through Chris Redd on “Saturday Evening Are living” on Jan. 15, added, “Tell us how we will be able to assist and we’ll be there for the maiden voyage.”