WATCH: How the Schamonchi Looks Today
New Bedford and Martha's Vineyard were once connected by the ferry Schamonchi. Now it is slowly sinking in a New York creek and is a shell of its glory days.
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Year-Round Martha's Vineyard Ferry Service Returns to New Bedford
There's always been a special tie between New Bedford and Martha's Vineyard. It's hard to believe, but it's been a solid twenty years since the last time New Bedford had ferry service to Martha's Vineyard. That's when the MV Schamonchi stopped making it's runs from Billy Woods Wharf.
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Ferry Schamonchi - Where Is It Now?
The New York Post is reporting that a group of artists who have been living on the Schamonchi while it was docked in Brooklyn, have been ordered to leave by the NYPD. The police cited them for living on an abandoned vessell.
The squatters had set up electricity and some sort of plumbing and occasionally held late night parties.
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