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South Ferry is at the southern tip of Manhattan in New York City and is the embarkation point for ferries to Staten Island (Staten Island Ferry, through the Staten Island Ferry Whitehall Terminal) and Governors Island. Battery Park, abutting South Ferry on the west, has docking areas for ferries to Liberty Island and Ellis Island.
The South Ferry/Whitehall Street station is a New York City Subway station complex in the Financial District neighborhood of Manhattan, under Battery Park.The complex is shared by the IRT Broadway–Seventh Avenue Line and the BMT Broadway Line.
The Battery Maritime Building is a building at South Ferry on the southern tip of Manhattan Island in New York City.Located at 10 South Street, near the intersection with Whitehall Street, it contains an operational ferry terminal at ground level, as well as a hotel and event space on the upper stories.
New Jersey ferries were banned from South Ferry, so ferries from Communipaw Terminal in Jersey City were re-routed to the Liberty Street Ferry Terminal in lower Manhattan. [10] [11] The following year, the city government acquired another route, which ran from South Ferry to 39th Street in South Brooklyn (now the neighborhood of Sunset Park in ...
Thus, the South Ferry Company established the South Ferry on May 16, 1836, to connect Lower Manhattan to the foot of Atlantic Avenue in Brooklyn and the month-old Brooklyn and Jamaica Railroad – later the Atlantic Avenue Railroad's streetcar line, and later still part of the Long Island Rail Road, now called the Atlantic Branch – through ...
Map from 1847 showing the routes of ferries in Lower Manhattan, Jersey City, Hoboken, and Brooklyn. The following ferries cross or once crossed the East River in New York City . This is a dynamic list and may never be able to satisfy particular standards for completeness.
The South Ferry station opened in 1905, [50] while the Joralemon Street Tunnel opened in 1908. [51] Another early method of transportation was by streetcars, which stopped at Battery Place and traveled up both sides of Manhattan Island. [37] These streetcar lines terminated at South Ferry and included what are now the M7, M20, M55 and M103 bus ...
When NYC Ferry eventually opened in 2017 (see NYC Ferry § Opening and high ridership), politicians and Staten Island residents again advocated bringing more ferry service to Staten Island, including adding one ferry each to Manhattan and Brooklyn, a stop on the South Shore, and extra stops on the NYCDOT's Staten Island Ferry line. [35]