Epic North Ferry lines

On Thursday, Aug. 10, for the second day in a row, the North Ferry line at rush hour extended beyond Bridge Street through the Heights, approaching Our Lady of the Isle Catholic Church. 

An estimated 1,100 cars crossed to Greenport on Wednesday, according to a police officer at the scene, snaking up Meadow Place and directed by police as they crossed Bridge Street,  New York Avenue and climbed up Prospect Avenue. 

Wednesday’s and Thursday’s lines were apparently the result of high volume. Ferry executive Bridg Hunt said one possibility for the long lines was a regatta on the South Fork that had sailors commuting across the Island to Connecticut at rush hours. Mr. Hunt said the regatta organizers had given ferry officials a head’s up about the event.

“The police have been extremely helpful in managing the traffic,” Mr. Hunt added.

As an officer directing traffic told a resident bewildered by the steady stream of stressed motorists passing her porch, “We’ve been discovered. “