New York City still can't find a taker for a decommissioned Staten Island Ferry boat involved in a fatal crash two decades ago.
for the past month but did not receive a single bid, even after the city’s Department of Citywide Administrative Services dropped the starting bid price by a third, from $155,000 to $100,000.
The first was in October 2003, when a pilot under the influence of prescription painkillers passed out at the helm, causing the 3,300-tonto smash into a concrete pier at full speed near the St. George Terminal, killing 11 people and injuring 70 more. The pilot, Richard J. Smith, abandoned ship after the crash.Smith eventually pled guilty to 11 counts of seaman’s manslaughter and falsifying medical records, and was sentenced to 18 months in prison.
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