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Bay Ridge is the southern terminal of the South Brooklyn line of the NYC Ferry system. Located on the north end of the 69th Street Pier in Bay Ridge, Brooklyn along the Verrazano Narrows , it is served by the South Brooklyn line at all times except late nights.
Until the late 19th century, Bay Ridge would remain a relatively isolated rural area, [21]: 4 reached primarily by stagecoaches, then by steam trolleys after 1878. [23]: 15 In 1892, the first electric trolley line was built in Brooklyn, starting at a ferry terminal at 39th Street and running via Second Avenue to 65th Street, and then via Third Avenue.
The St. George ferry's Staten Island terminal would be Empire Outlets rather than St. George Terminal; the South Brooklyn route would be truncated to a new stop at Industry City; and the Coney Island ferry would go directly between Bay Ridge and Wall Street without a stop at the Brooklyn Army Terminal. [112]
Wall Street Ferry Terminal: Hunters Point Ferry Terminal: Long Island Rail Road, – September 30, 1908 [8] Pier 11/Wall Street: Hunters Point Ferry Terminal: September 3, 2002 – September 1, 2003 [9] [10] James Slip Ferry: James Slip: Hunters Point Ferry Terminal: East River Ferry Company, late 1850s? – May 1868
[3] [12] The Brooklyn Army Terminal had over 13 miles (21 km) of tracks at its peak. [10] Although much of the trackage was abandoned by the 1970s, including the freight yards south of the terminal, a direct track connection from the Brooklyn Army Terminal to the Bay Ridge Branch was established in 1973. [12]
[82] [83] On May 1, 2017, NYC Ferry's Rockaway route started operations, and NY Waterway's East River route was transferred over to NYC Ferry operation. [84] The Bay Ridge route began on June 1, a month later, [85] and the Astoria route began on August 29 of the same year. [86]
Located adjacent to the Brooklyn Army Terminal, it provided a major link in the city's rail freight network in the first half of the twentieth century. It was later used as a conventional railroad yard at the end of the LIRR/NY&A Bay Ridge Branch. The new transfer bridges were constructed in 1999, but remained unused until the transfer bridges ...
The Bay Ridge–95th Street station (originally 95th Street–Fort Hamilton) is the southern terminal station on the BMT Fourth Avenue Line of the New York City Subway. Despite the name, the station is located in the neighborhood of Fort Hamilton (as its original name implied) at the intersection of 95th Street and Fourth Avenue in southwestern ...