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The Midtown ferry proved successful until the city made the New York City Department of Transportation (NYCDOT)'s Staten Island Ferry fare-free in mid-1997. [28] As a result, daily ridership on the $5-per-ticket Midtown ferry decreased to 400 passengers, and New York Fast Ferry was unable to make a profit on the route.
Team boats served New York City for "about ten years, from 1814-1824. They were of eight horse-power and crossed the rivers in from twelve to twenty minutes." [10]In 1812, two steam boats designed by Robert Fulton were placed in use in New York, for the Paulus Hook Ferry from the foot of Cortlandt Street, and on the Hoboken Ferry from the foot of Barclay Street.
Circle Line Brooklyn - purpose-built in 2009. Circle Line Queens - purpose-built in 2009. The Beast - speedboat that entered service with Circle Line in 2011. Circle Line Bronx - built by Gladding-Hearn Shipbuilding and delivered in January 2017. [8] Circle Line Staten Island - built by Gladding-Hearn Shipbuilding and delivered in May 2017. [9]
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]
50th Street, one of the line's original stations. Also known as the IRT West Side Line, [6] since it runs along the west side of Manhattan, the IRT Broadway–Seventh Avenue Line runs from Van Cortlandt Park–242nd Street in the Bronx, close to New York City's border with Westchester, to South Ferry in Lower Manhattan, at the southernmost point in the borough.
The station depicted in a 1906 postcard. Dobbs Ferry station opened on September 29, 1849 with its origins as part of the Hudson River Railroad. [1] The current station house, which was built in 1889 by the New York Central and Hudson River Railroad, became a Penn Central station upon the merger between NYC and Pennsylvania Railroad in 1968 like many NYCRR stations in Westchester County, until ...
New York City Omnibus Corporation buses route (M23 - 5) replaced New York Railways' Sixth Avenue Line streetcar on March 3, 1936. New York City Omnibus Corporation buses route (M22 - 6) replaced New York Railways' Broadway Line streetcar on March 6, 1936. The routes were combined as a one-way pair on November 10, 1963, and kept the number 6.
A 2022 XD40 (7864) on the Jamaica-bound Q54 at Metropolitan/72nd Avenues in Forest Hills A 2013 C40LF (651) on the Q66 at an old-style bus stop with the timetable box in Woodside, Queens. The Metropolitan Transportation Authority (MTA) operates a number of bus routes in Queens, New York, United States, under two