Pete Davidson unsure if ferry he bought last year has sunk
The old Staten Island ferry that comedian Pete Davidson purchased in 2022 is in dire need of a wellness check. Even its owner isn’t sure if it’s still floating.
After making headlines for co-purchasing the giant orange ship with fellow borough native Colin Jost at auction, then announcing plans to transform it into New York’s hottest new club, Pete Davidson has admitted that he has not a clue what’s good with the vessel.
“I have no idea what’s going on with that thing,” the former “Saturday Night Live” star, 29, told an Entertainment Tonight reporter at the red carpet premiere of “Transformers: Rise of the Beasts” at Kings Theatre on Monday. “Me and Colin were very stoned a year ago and bought a ferry. And we’re figuring it out.”
The reporter asked Davidson if he was going to throw an after-party for the event on the boat, which once ferried folks for free from Manhattan, only for Davidson to laugh and respond “Yeah, if it’s not sunk.”
The watercraft, he explained in so many words, has become something of a money pit he would appear to regret becoming the proprietor of.
Davidson and his ferry shortly after he purchased it. Robert Miller for NY Post
Pete Davidson and anchor Colin Jost during “Saturday Night Live.” NBCU Photo Bank via Getty Images
Davidson’s ferry first began carrying passengers in 1965. @chadrock/Chad Rachman
“Hopefully it turns into a Transformer and gets the f–k out of there so I can stop paying for it!” he added of the ship, which he named “Titanic 2.”
Although Davidson and Jost spent a not-small sum of $280,100 on the retired piece of public transit and spoke in earnest of making the behemoth into “a live entertainment event space, with comedy, music, art, et cetera,” this is not the first time he’s admitted buying the enormous people freighter was more impulse buy than deeply considered investment.
“Hey! We bought a ferry, the windowless van of the sea,” the actor said on a January 2022 episode of “SNL,” before noting “Yes, it’s very exciting. We thought the whole thing through.”
Source: New York Post
