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The River Café is a restaurant located on a former coffee barge in the East River under the Brooklyn Bridge.It has offered its own ferry service from Wall Street.Opened in 1977 by Michael O'Keeffe, who has also owned several other New York City restaurants, it was one of the first fine dining restaurants in the city to promote locally sourced and organic food, American cuisine, and high-end ...
54th Avenue on 2nd Street 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
Calls for a new ferry on a more southerly route were first brought up before the New York City Council in 1825, the proposal being commonly known as the "New South Ferry" since 1826, [1] but progress stalled until the issue was taken up by the City of Brooklyn in 1833. [2] The South Ferry Company established the South Ferry on May 16, 1836 to ...
34th Street Ferry: East 34th Street Ferry Landing: Hunters Point Ferry Terminal: East River Ferry Company, April 20, 1859 – July 1887 [12] Metropolitan Ferry Company, July 1887 – April 1, 1892 [13] Long Island Rail Road, April 1, 1892 – March 3, 1925 [14] East 34th Street Vehicular Ferry East 34th Street Ferry Landing: Hunters Point Ferry ...
NYC Ferry vessel at Slip A. Pier 11 Wall Street is a stop for all NYC Ferry routes, except for the St. George route, and the terminus of all except the South Brooklyn route. [81] In 2016, the city drew up plans for routes to Bay Ridge, Rockaway, Governors Island, Astoria, Lower East Side, and Soundview.
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.
The separate sections of the Whitehall Street Ferry Terminal were designed so they could be constructed separately while remaining visually similar. Work started on the Brooklyn ferry slips first, followed by the Staten Island ferry slips in 1908. [11] A simple cornerstone-laying ceremony for the Brooklyn ferry terminal took place in September ...
The Water Club was a restaurant and event venue on two barges moored on the East River at East 30th Street in Kips Bay, in Manhattan, New York City.Located on the stretch of waterfront between the East 34th Street Heliport and Waterside Plaza, the venue served classic American cuisine and seafood; it overlooked Long Island City, Queens and Greenpoint, Brooklyn across the river.