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Indian casino to ferry gamblers from New York

Monday, March 9, 1998 | 9:26 a.m.

NEW YORK - Foxwoods Casino in Connecticut, owned by the Mashantucket Pequot Indian tribe, has leased docking space at Manhattan's Chelsea Piers for a high-speed ferry that is to begin transporting gamblers later this month between New York City and the tribe's casino near New London.

Tribal officials said on Thursday that the ferry service, which is to begin on March 16, would reduce the travel time to the casino to about 2 hours and 45 minutes from lower Manhattan, compared with about 3 1/2 hours by car.

Car travel to Atlantic City's casinos takes about two and one half hours from New York.

The $11.5-million ferry, built by a boat yard in New London that is also owned by the tribe, can carry up to 264 passengers and travel up to 54 miles per hour.

It would make two round trips a day, in the morning and evening, and cost $80 round trip for the basic fare, or $130 round trip in "Admiral class," which will include a "white-linen service gourmet meal."

The tribe said that a second ferry would be put in service by midsummer, doubling the number of trips each day.

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