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Brooklyn Bridge Park is an 85-acre (34 ha) park on the Brooklyn side of the East River in New York City.Designed by landscape architecture firm Michael Van Valkenburgh Associates, the park is located on a 1.3-mile (2.1 km) plot of land from Atlantic Avenue in the south, under the Brooklyn Heights Promenade and past the Brooklyn Bridge, to Jay Street north of the Manhattan Bridge.
[56]: 6 The existing East River Ferry landings at Brooklyn Bridge Park Pier 1; Schaefer Landing, North Williamsburg, Greenpoint, and Long Island City remained unchanged. Upgrades were made to the landings at Wall Street, East 34th Street, East 92nd Street, the Brooklyn Army Terminal, and Brooklyn Bridge Park Pier 6. The remaining landings were ...
Located at the Brooklyn Army Terminal in Sunset Park, Brooklyn.Served by the South Brooklyn and Rockaway routes. The landing is also used by the employee shuttle for NYU Langone Health that runs to the East 34th Street Ferry Landing and is operated by New York Water Taxi.
South Brooklyn Ferry: Pier 11/Wall Street: Governors Island; Fulton Ferry; Atlantic Avenue; Red Hook; Sunset Park: Bay Ridge: 2017–present Bridge Street Ferry: James Slip Bridge Street, Downtown Brooklyn: 1864–1874 Catherine Ferry: Catherine Slip: Main Street, Downtown Brooklyn: 1795 – ???? Gouverneur Street Ferry: Gouverneur Slip: Bridge ...
View of Fulton Ferry, L.I. From U.S. Hotel, in Lower Manhattan, New York, 1845. Though boats and sail ferries called at these locations since the 18th century, the inauguration of Robert Fulton's steam Fulton Ferry Company in 1814 established his name on the ferry service, which revolutionized travel between the then City of New York on Manhattan Island and the Village of Brooklyn and the rest ...
A long-closed plot of land under the Brooklyn Bridge has reopened to the public after 15 years — restoring another slice of greenspace for one of the city’s most crowded neighborhoods.
Piers 5 and 6, recently removed from shipping service Map from 1847 showing the route of the South Ferry, second route northeast of Governors Island. South Ferry was a ferry landing on the Brooklyn side of the East River, at the foot of Atlantic Avenue below the Brooklyn Heights neighborhood. It is now Piers 5 and 6 in Brooklyn Bridge Park.
In the 20th and early 21st centuries, the Brooklyn landing site served cargo as Brooklyn Piers 5 and 6, now part of Brooklyn Bridge Park. The Fulton Ferry Company, which then operated only the Fulton Ferry, merged with the South Ferry Company in 1839 to form the New York and Brooklyn Union Ferry Company. [3] [4]