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Pier A, also known as City Pier A, is a pier in the Hudson River at Battery Park in Lower Manhattan, New York City. It was built from 1884 to 1886 as the headquarters of the New York City Board of Dock Commissioners (also known as the Docks Department) and the New York City Police Department (NYPD)'s Harbor Department.
A passenger terminal is a structure in a port which services passengers boarding and leaving water vessels such as ferries, cruise ships and ocean liners.Depending on the types of vessels serviced by the terminal, it may be named (for example) ferry terminal, cruise terminal, marine terminal or maritime passenger terminal.
The Normandie, renamed USS Lafayette, lies capsized in the frozen mud at Pier 88 in the winter of 1942. The Manhattan Cruise Terminal, formerly known as the New York Passenger Ship Terminal or Port Authority Passenger Ship Terminal is a ship terminal for ocean-going passenger ships in Hell's Kitchen, Manhattan, New York City. [3]
The Battery, formerly known as Battery Park, is a 25-acre (10 ha) public park located at the southern tip of Manhattan Island in New York City facing New York Harbor.It is bounded by Battery Place on the north, with Bowling Green to the northeast, State Street on the east, New York Harbor to the south, and the Hudson River to the west.
Original pier demolished for New York Passenger Ship Terminal expansion. Currently part of Manhattan Cruise Terminal 91 12th Ave and W. 51st St. 1930s Demolished for New York Passenger Ship Terminal expansion 92 12th Ave and W. 52nd St. 1937 Original pier demolished for New York Passenger Ship Terminal expansion. Currently exhibition space 93
Pier 11/Wall Street is the terminal for all NYC Ferry routes, except for the St. George and South Brooklyn lines. The pier has five berths each with two ferry slips, and is also used by NY Waterway, Seastreak, and tour boats.
The terminal was built in 1980, and dedicated to former Boston resident Earhart in 1984. [98] Until 2006, American Eagle flights flew out of the terminal when all flights were consolidated in the former B22-29 gates in Pier A, the north building of Terminal B. Passengers had to take a shuttle bus from Terminal B to the Earhart Terminal.
The container terminal was built in the 1980s. [4] Nearly all labor on the terminal is supplied by Local 1814 of the International Longshoreman's Association union. [5] There are two active container cranes along 2,080 feet berth, 3,140 feet of breakbulk berth space, two major bulk-handling yards, and approximately 400,000 square feet of ...