A welcome escape from New York City’s typical hustle and bustle will now be open all year — and just a short ferry ride away.
The 172-acre island in New York Harbor opened wide to the public in 2006 after decades as a military installation.
Governors Island starting Nov. 1 will be open from 7 a.m. to 6:15 p.m.
NYC Ferry service will be offered on the South Brooklyn Route during weekdays and non-summer weekends, in addition to the existing Pier 11/Wall Street summer shuttle.
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by Riccardo Ravasini 
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In total, there were just 919 unsheltered homeless in Miami-Dade as of August 2021, a countywide census showed.
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The Miami area has one of the lowest per-capita homeless rates of any big U.S. city.
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by Riccardo Ravasini 
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by Riccardo Ravasini 
Want to live where an NBA star laid his head (and six- foot-11 frame)? You’ll need $42 million or so.
Chris Bosh’s Miami Beach former home is for sale.
What you’ll get for your hard earned cash ($3,500 a square foot) is a stellar abode fit for the basketball king that he was: a seven bedroom, eight bath waterfront mansion.
Bosh sold it in January for $14.4 million to an affiliate of Miami-based homebuilder AquaBlue Group which relisted it for almost three times the price.
Another perk of living at the Miami Heat standout’s former home? Model neighbors, literally. …
by Riccardo Ravasini 
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by Riccardo Ravasini 
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by Riccardo Ravasini