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New Jersey end Operated Notes Royal Blue Line Ferry. [12] South Ferry: Communipaw Terminal (1897–1905) The Royal Blue was a Baltimore and Ohio Railroad train to Washington, D.C. via Central Railroad of New Jersey and Reading Railroad: Communipaw Ferry: Liberty Street Ferry Terminal (1661 [13] –1967) Central Railroad of New Jersey: Jersey ...
Burdett's Landing, also called Burdett's Ferry, is a site on the west bank of the Hudson River located in Edgewater, New Jersey. Ferries initially used Burdett's Landing as a departure point for transporting agricultural produce from New Jersey across to New York .
NY Waterway, or New York Waterway, is a private transportation company running ferry and bus service in the Port of New York and New Jersey and in the Hudson Valley.The company utilizes public-private partnership with agencies such as the Port Authority of New York and New Jersey, New Jersey Transit, New York City Department of Transportation, and Metropolitan Transportation Authority to ...
The Edgewater Branch was a branch of the New York, Susquehanna and Western Railway (NYS&W) that ran for 3.174 miles (5.108 km) through eastern Bergen County, New Jersey in the United States. Starting from a rail junction at the Little Ferry Yard (in Ridgefield ), [ 1 ] it went east through the Edgewater Tunnel to Undercliff (as Edgewater was ...
The Binghamton was a ferryboat that transported passengers across the Hudson River between Manhattan and Hoboken from 1905 to 1967. Moored in 1971 at Edgewater, Bergen County, New Jersey, United States, the ship was operated as a floating restaurant from 1975 to 2007. [4]
The Weehawken was the last ferry to the West Shore Railroad's Weehawken Terminal on March 25, 1959 at 1:10 am., [8] ending a century of continuous service from 42nd Street.In 1981 Arthur Edward Imperatore, Sr., trucking magnate, purchased a 2.5-mile (4.0 km) length of the Weehawken waterfront from the bankrupt Penn Central for $7.5 million and in 1986 established New York Waterway, [9] with a ...
The Weehawken was the last ferry to the West Shore Terminal on March 25, 1959, at 1:10 am. [8] [page needed] and train service was discontinued. The right of way (originally part of the NYC's New Jersey Junction Railroad) was later used by the Penn Central River Division [9] and the Conrail River Line before being abandoned.
One of the first documented team boats in commercial service in the United States was "put in service in 1814 on a run between Brooklyn and Manhattan." [1] It took "8 to 18 minutes to cross the East River and carried an average of 200 passengers, plus horses and vehicles."