Brooklyn Cruise Terminal
The terminal is 180,000 square feet (17,000 m2) and sits on Buttermilk Channel, a tidal strait separating Brooklyn from Governors Island.Ships from Carnival Corporation (which owns the Cunard and Princess Cruises) call the terminal their home port.The Brooklyn Cruise Terminal is located at Red Hook Pier 12, on the south side of the Atlantic Basin[5] at Pioneer and Imlay Streets.Vehicular access is through the main gate near the intersection of Bowne and Imlay Streets.The Brooklyn Cruise Terminal opened on April 15, 2006, following a $52 million investment by NYCEDC, with the arrival of the RMS Queen Mary 2.