Two years ago, New York City announced that the Coursen, which runs on diesel, would be replaced by a thirty-three-million-dollar hybrid-electric passenger ferry. Asked if he’ll miss it, Coss chuckled. “If you owned a nineteen-fifties Chevy Bel Air and you drove it to work every day, there’d be elements of it you’d really love,” he said. “And you’d also be, like, ‘It’d be nice to have air-conditioning.’ ”journey-inline-newsletterinline-newsletter