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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.
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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 ...
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Martin's Fulton Street storefront with updated exterior, February 1947, Gottscho-Schleisner Collection (Library of Congress) The history of Martin's dates back to at least 1903. [ 1 ] Hyman Zeitz (c. 1860-1930), who emigrated to the United States in 1882, [ 2 ] opened a coat and suit department in an existing blouse shop called Martin's at the ...
[4] [5] Namm relocated to 286 Fulton Street in Brooklyn during 1885, and he then moved to 335–337 Fulton Street two years later. [6] At the time, many of Brooklyn's largest stores were located on "lower Fulton Street", near Fulton Ferry , while Namm's was located on what the public commonly considered as "upper Fulton Street".
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.
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