Cortlandt Street Ferry Depot was the main ferry terminal of the Pennsylvania Railroad and the West Shore Railroad on the North River (Hudson River) in lower Manhattan . The railroads operated ferries to their terminal stations on the Hudson River waterfront in New Jersey at Exchange Place and Weehawken , respectively.
6-469: The depot was next to Liberty Street Ferry Terminal from which the Central Railroad of New Jersey operated its Communipaw ferry to Communipaw Terminal . As early as July 1764 a ferry began operating from Paulus Hook to Mesier's dock which was located at the foot of Courtland Street (where Cortlandt Street Ferry Depot would be built). Almost immediately and for several decades subsequently,
12-439: A complicated series of legal battles broke out over who should operate the ferries, where the crossing(s) should be located and at what rate passengers and other cargo should be charged for the journey. The first steam ferry service in the world began operations in 1812 between Paulus Hook and Manhattan and reduced the journey time to a then remarkable 14 minutes. With the arrival of the railroad station at Paulus Hook in 1834 and
18-705: The arrival of the Morris and Essex Railroad service on October 14, 1836 the number of passengers and the value of the Jersey City Ferry continued to increase. The terminal was located one block west of the Ninth Avenue Elevated 's Cortlandt Street Station which operated from 1874 until 1940. 40°42′41″N 74°00′54″W / 40.7115°N 74.0149°W / 40.7115; -74.0149 Liberty Street Ferry Terminal Liberty Street Ferry Terminal or Liberty Street Terminal
24-595: The village of Communipaw during the Dutch colonial period . The terminal opened in 1865 following the completion of the Central Railroad of New Jersey's Communipaw Terminal. By the late 1960s the Jersey Central opted to close its station at Communipaw and the last ferry departed the terminal for Jersey City on April 26, 1967, bringing to an end 306 years of Communipaw ferry operations. The terminal
30-634: Was subsequently demolished and the waterfront was filled in to create Battery Park City in the early 1970s. The Cortland Street Ferry Depot , operated by the Pennsylvania Railroad and the West Shore Railroad , was located directly next to the terminal and also provided ferry service across the North River from lower Manhattan to their railroad terminals at Exchange Place and Weehawken , respectively. The terminal
36-749: Was the Central Railroad of New Jersey 's passenger ferry slip in lower Manhattan , New York City and the point of departure and embarkation for passengers travelling on the Central Railroad of New Jersey, Baltimore and Ohio Railroad , Reading Railroad and the Lehigh Valley Railroad from the Communipaw Terminal across the Hudson River in Jersey City . Service by the Communipaw ferry dated back to 1661, from
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