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The Staten Island Ferry is a fare-free passenger ferry route operated by the New York City Department of Transportation. The ferry's single route runs 5.2 miles (8.4 km) through New York Harbor between the New York City boroughs of Manhattan and Staten Island, with ferry boats completing the trip in about 25 minutes. The ferry operates 24 hours ...
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. NYC Ferry has the largest passenger fleet in the United States with a total of 38 vessels, providing between 20 and 90 minute ...
Pan Am Water Shuttle (1987-1991) Delta Water Shuttle (1991-2000) [3] Pier 11/Wall Street. East 34th Street Ferry Landing [4] Marine Air Terminal. August 24, 1987 – December 29, 2000 [5] [6] Wall Street Ferry Terminal. Hunters Point Ferry Terminal.
toward East 90th Street. The Brooklyn Navy Yard Ferry Terminal is located at Dock 72 in the Brooklyn Navy Yard, and opened on May 21, 2019. It is served by the Astoria route in both directions. Nearby, connections are available to the B67 bus within the Navy Yard, and the B57, B62, and B69 buses along Flushing Avenue.
New York Waterway has announced that children can ride free on all ferry routes between New Jersey and Manhattan this summer, starting July 5 and running through Labor Day, Sept. 2.
The following ferries once crossed the North River between New York City and New Jersey. There was no ferry service between 1967 [1] [2] and 1989, when it was restarted by New York Waterway. [3] Depiction of first steam ferry from Paulus Hook. North River ferry. The Public Service Corporation -operated Edgewater, running from Edgewater Ferry ...
By 1642 there was a ferry running on the river between Manhattan island and what is now Brooklyn, and the first pier on the river was built in 1647 at Pearl and Broad Streets. After the British took over the colony in 1664, which was renamed "New York", the development of the waterfront continued, and a shipbuilding industry grew up once New ...
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 ...