by Dan Rivoli

Imagine riding a ferry, enjoying the industrial views of Newtown Creek along the Brooklyn-Queens border as a way to get around without the L train.

One team of engineers and designers did — earning a $1,000 prize at a competition for the best way to move people around when the Canarsie tunnel closes in 2019 and severely disrupts L train service between Manhattan and Brooklyn.

The contest, hosted on Sunday by the Van Alen Institute, a design nonprofit, attracted teams who devised fantastical travel options to replace the L train.

The winning design, called Transient Transit, imagines small, fast ferries cruising down Newtown Creek and onto the East River. To get to the creek from east Brooklyn, the team proposed using a ground-level Long Island Rail Road freight track that runs along the L train’s path.