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NYC Ferry is a public network of ferry routes in New York City operated by Hornblower Cruises.As of August 2023, there are six routes, as well as one seasonal route, connecting 25 ferry piers across all five boroughs.
Long Island City, New York: Connections: NY Water Taxi New York City Subway: at Vernon Boulevard-Jackson Avenue NYCT Bus: B32, B62 (at 11th Street and Jackson Avenue) MTA Bus: Q67, Q103 LIRR: City Terminal Zone (at Long Island City) Services
IKEA Express ferry operated by New York Water Taxi at Pier 11 in 2008. In June 2008, New York Water Taxi began operation of a ferry route to the IKEA store in Red Hook, Brooklyn. The free service was implemented as a measure to improve transportation access to the new store but was not limited to use by store customers. [59]
A ferry crossing between Hunters Point and 34th Street was established on April 20, 1859 by Anthony W. Winans. [7] The route was originally operated by the East River Ferry Corporation, which was taken over by the Metropolitan Ferry Company in 1887 and later came under the control of Long Island Rail Road (LIRR) in 1892.
After the attacks, officials proposed a $7 billion redesign of transit in Lower Manhattan, including a new South Ferry subway terminal with a direct connection to the Whitehall ferry terminal. [ 128 ] [ 129 ] As a result of the Maritime Transportation Security Act of 2002 , all vehicular traffic on the ferry was banned in 2003, and passengers ...
When the Manhattan Bridge reopened in February 2004, the R train began serving the station at all times except late nights, while the N train only served the station at night. [ 142 ] [ 143 ] In addition, weekday W trains to Ditmars Boulevard used the Whitehall Street station as their southern terminus [ 142 ] [ 143 ] until that route was ...
The 14th Street/Sixth Avenue station is an underground New York City Subway station complex in the Greenwich Village and Chelsea neighborhoods of Manhattan, on the IRT Broadway–Seventh Avenue Line, the BMT Canarsie Line and the IND Sixth Avenue Line. It is located on 14th Street between Sixth Avenue (Avenue of the Americas) and Seventh Avenue.
New York City mayor John Francis Hylan's original plans for the Independent Subway System (IND), proposed in 1922, included building over 100 miles (160 km) of new lines and taking over nearly 100 miles (160 km) of existing lines, which would compete with the IRT and the Brooklyn–Manhattan Transit Corporation (BMT), the two major subway operators of the time.