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The Union Ferry Company's ferryboat Farragut on the Fulton Ferry route, ca. 1900 Map from 1847 showing the route of the Fulton Ferry. The Fulton Ferry was the first steam ferry route connecting Manhattan and Brooklyn, New York City, United States, joining Fulton Street, Manhattan, and Fulton Street, Brooklyn, across the East River.
View of Fulton Ferry, L.I. From U.S. Hotel, in Lower Manhattan, New York, 1845. Though boats and sail ferries called at these locations since the 18th century, the inauguration of Robert Fulton's steam Fulton Ferry Company in 1814 established his name on the ferry service, which revolutionized travel between the then City of New York on Manhattan Island and the Village of Brooklyn and the rest ...
The Fulton Ferry Company, which then operated only the Fulton Ferry, merged with the South Ferry Company in 1839 to form the New York and Brooklyn Union Ferry Company. [1] [2] In the 20th and early 21st centuries, the site served cargo as Brooklyn Piers 5 and 6, which are now part of Brooklyn Bridge Park.
Served by the South Brooklyn and Rockaway routes. The landing is also used by the employee shuttle for NYU Langone Health that runs to the East 34th Street Ferry Landing and is operated by New York Water Taxi. [3] The landing was rebuilt and opened in 2018, with an all new waiting area.
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 Terminal: September 16, 1927 – July 15, 1936 [11] [15] [16] East 34th Street Ferry Landing: Hunters Point Ferry Terminal: October 17, 1994 ...
Brooklyn Bridge Park is an 85-acre (34 ha) park on the Brooklyn side of the East River in New York City.Designed by landscape architecture firm Michael Van Valkenburgh Associates, the park is located on a 1.3-mile (2.1 km) plot of land from Atlantic Avenue in the south, under the Brooklyn Heights Promenade and past the Brooklyn Bridge, to Jay Street north of the Manhattan Bridge.
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In the 20th and early 21st centuries, the Brooklyn landing site served cargo as Brooklyn Piers 5 and 6, now part of Brooklyn Bridge Park. The Fulton Ferry Company, which then operated only the Fulton Ferry, merged with the South Ferry Company in 1839 to form the New York and Brooklyn Union Ferry Company. [3] [4]