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The company introduced steamboat service to the route with the Nassau on May 8, 1814 (the first steam ferry service on the East River), and moved the Manhattan landing to Fulton Street that year. The ferry, which had been known popularly as the Old Ferry since 1795, when the Catherine Ferry (New Ferry) was introduced, became known as the Fulton ...
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 ...
Fulton Slip, Manhattan, the former ferry landing in Manhattan, now part of the South Street Seaport Empire-Fulton Ferry State Park, another name for Brooklyn Bridge Park on the Brooklyn side Fulton Ferry (BMT Fulton Street Line) , a station on the demolished BMT Fulton Street Line in Brooklyn that closed in 1940
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 Terminal: September 16, 1927 – July 15, 1936 [11] [15] [16] East 34th Street ...
Located at the foot of Fulton Street, at the former Fulton Ferry landing, adjacent to Brooklyn Bridge Park's Pier 1. DUMBO is served by the East River and South Brooklyn routes. DUMBO is served by the East River and South Brooklyn routes.
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 July 1985, the city's Department of Ports and Terminals solicited bids from private operators to run a permanent commuter ferry service between Pier 11, the South Street Seaport and Fulton Ferry, Brooklyn as well to operate excursion boats and redevelop a former fireboat house at Fulton Ferry Landing. An experimental ferry service was ...