The crash test pilot, who killed 11 people in the 2004 Staten Island ferry crash, Richard Smith, was sentenced to 18 months in prison. The former ferry director, Patrick Ryan, was also sentenced, and is being sent to prison for a year and one day. (Is the extra day really neccessary?)

Now, we're waiting to hear weather or not the city is going to be sued. The good news is, we have a full year to try and get more tourists back to the city, so they can shovel money into the economy to pay for our stupidity. Which of course includes taking the SIF to the Statue of Liberty.

S.I. ferry pilot, director get prison [Anthony M. DeStefano, Newsday]