List of ferries across the Hudson River to New York City
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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]
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Row and Sail
[edit]Name | Manhattan end | New Jersey end | Operated | Notes |
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Bulls Ferry | Bulls Ferry | 18th century | Bergen Township | |
Communipaw | Fort Amsterdam | Communipaw ferry | 1661-[4][3] | charter granted by Peter Stuyvesant, Director-General of New Netherland |
Budd's Ferry[5] | Cortlandt Street | Harsimus | 1808–1818 | |
Weehawken Ferry[6] | Weehawken Street? | Weehawken Cove? | 1700- | royal patent from Richard Coote, 1st Earl of Bellomont[7] |
Burdett's Landing | Bloomingdale | Edgewater Fort Lee | 1758- | Hackensack Township |
Tubby Hook Ferry[8] | Dyckman Street | Closter Dock?[9] |
Horse ferries
[edit]Team boats served New York City for "about ten years, from 1814-1824. They were of eight horse-power and crossed the rivers in from twelve to twenty minutes."[10]
In 1812, two steam boats designed by Robert Fulton were placed in use in New York, for the Paulus Hook Ferry from the foot of Cortlandt Street, and on the Hoboken Ferry from the foot of Barclay Street. The Juliana, running from Barclay Street, was withdrawn from service, as announced, in favor of the "more convenient" horse boat. It is almost certain, however, that this retrograde step was taken because of the monopoly enjoyed by Mssrs. Fulton and Livingston for the navigation of the waters of New York State by steam.[11]
Steam
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See also
[edit]- List of ferries across the East River
- List of fixed crossings of the Hudson River
- List of fixed crossings of the East River
- New York New Jersey Rail car float, Brooklyn to Jersey City
- New York Harbor
- North River
- Port of New York and New Jersey
- Timeline of Jersey City area railroads
- Perth Amboy Ferry Slip
References
[edit]- ^ "Ferries Are the Wave of the Future | Metro US". Archived from the original on January 24, 2018. Retrieved January 23, 2018.
- ^ http://www.worldshipny.com/images/nyc2wslweehawken.jpg [bare URL image file]
- ^ a b Eftimiades, Maria (December 24, 1989). "Ferryboats Again Becoming a Familiar Sight Along Hudson". The New York Times. Retrieved February 18, 2019.
- ^ Baxter, Raymond J.; Adams, Arthur G. (February 18, 1999). Railroad Ferries of the Hudson: And Stories of a Deckhand. Fordham University Press. ISBN 9780823219544. Retrieved February 18, 2019 – via Google Books.
- ^ A brief history of Harsimus Cove Archived February 13, 2009, at the Wayback Machine
- ^ History of the Hudson River Ferries Archived March 7, 2009, at the Wayback Machine
- ^ Person, Lenore. "The History of Hudson River Ferry Service". Archived from the original on September 14, 2000. Retrieved February 9, 2022.
- ^ a b Washington Heights history Archived August 7, 2010, at the Wayback Machine Tubby Hook
- ^ a b "Closter Dock Road Historical Marker". Hmdb.org. Retrieved February 18, 2019.
- ^ "Railway World". Vol. 30. April 24, 1886. p. 388. Retrieved April 17, 2014.
- ^ a b Stevens, A.E. (1897). "Origin and development of the ferryboat". Marine Engineering/Log. 1. Retrieved April 17, 2014.
- ^ a b c d e Kenneth T. Jackson: The Encyclopedia of New York City: The New York Historical Society; Yale University Press; 1995. p. 398-400
- ^ Railroad Ferries of the Hudson: And Stories of a Deckhand, by, Raymond J. Baxter, Arthur G. Adams, pg. 46 ,1999, Fordham University Press, 978-0823219544
- ^ History of the County of Hudson, New Jersey: From Its Earliest Settlement to the Present Time, Charles Hardenburg Winfield, pg. 243-246, Kennard & Hay Stationery M'fg and Print. Company, 1874
- ^ "The History Box -Evolution of the Ferry-Boat 1692-1890". Thehistorybox.com. Archived from the original on July 30, 2010. Retrieved February 18, 2019.
- ^ Railroad Ferries of the Hudson: And Stories of a Deckhand, by, Raymond J. Baxter, Arthur G. Adams, pg. 70-80 ,1999, Fordham University Press, 978-0823219544
- ^ Magazine, Harlem World (September 10, 2018). "The 125th Street Ferry And Station, Harlem, NY, 1903-1941". Harlem World Magazine. Retrieved August 4, 2023.
Bibliography
[edit]- Brian J. Cudahy, Over and Back: The History of Ferryboats in New York Harbor
- Arthur G. Adams, The Hudson Through the Years
External links
[edit]- Hudson County Public Transportation 1926
- World Shipping
- A Compilation of the Ferry Leases and Railroad Grants Made by the Corporation of the City of New York, 1860
- A Compilation of the Existing Ferry Leases and Railroad Grants Made by the Corporation of the City of New York, 1866
- History of the Hudson River Ferries
- Brooklyn Eagle Alamanac describing available service
- Court case 1897 describing traffic