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110-578: The Battery Maritime Building is a building at South Ferry on the southern tip of Manhattan Island in New York City . Located at 10 South Street , near the intersection with Whitehall Street , it contains an operational ferry terminal at ground level, as well as a hotel and event space on the upper stories. The ground story contains three ferry slips that are used for excursion trips and ferries to Governors Island , as well as commuter trips to Port Liberté, Jersey City . The upper stories contain

220-460: A porte-cochere . The building was originally constructed with a large second-story waiting room known as the Great Hall. The Great Hall measured 60 feet (18 m) wide and 150 to 170 feet (46 to 52 m) long, with a ceiling about 30 feet (9.1 m) high. The interior contains iron columns and stained glass windows and, as in the first floor, had wooden furnishings. Had the center wing of

330-534: A Paris cafe was ten centimes. Visitors paid an additional price for several of the exposition's most popular attractions. Climbing the Eiffel Tower cost five Francs; admission to the popular panoramas, theatres and concerts was one franc. Visitors from the French provinces could buy a ticket which included the train fare and entry into the exposition. The total cost of exposition was 41,500,000 francs, while income

440-409: A Paris suburb. Speaking of the tower construction workers, the son-in-law of Eiffel, declared, "no soldier on the battle field deserved better mention than these humble toilers, who, will never go down in history." During the exposition, no one other than construction personnel were allowed higher than the second viewing platform. In the first week of the exposition, 29,922 persons climbed the tower to

550-677: A balcony with an elaborate railing. The balcony forms a loggia that measures 15 feet (4.6 m) wide; a similar loggia was also planned for the Staten Island Ferry terminal and center wing. The vaults under the porch roof utilize Guastavino tiles . The second story had a direct connection to the South Ferry elevated train station , the Staten Island Ferry terminal, and Lower Manhattan . The windows contain large frames with glazed glass and cast-iron mullions . Between these are connecting walls with wire lattice work , attached to

660-518: A building by the Paris architect Pierre-Henri Picq . This was an elaborate iron and glass structure decorated with ceramic tiles in a Byzantine-Egyptian-Romanesque style. After the exposition the building was shipped to Fort de France and reassembled there, the work being completed by 1893. Known as the Schœlcher Library, initially it contained the 10,000 books that Victor Schœlcher had donated to

770-670: A downsized version of the plans in 2008. The same year, David Byrne 's musical installation Playing the Building was temporarily installed in the Battery Maritime Building, using vibrations from the building's beams and pipes to produce sound. The New York City Council approved the hotel plan in March 2009, but Dermot had difficulty obtaining funding following the financial crisis of 2007–2008 . The New York City Regional Center loaned Dermot $ 77 million in 2011 for

880-431: A glass-clad addition was constructed on the roof. The addition includes a swimming pool, restaurant, and bar. Spires and cupolas were also installed atop the water-facing side; these design features had been part of the original design but were removed in the 1930s. Including bulkheads, the Battery Maritime Building is approximately 104 feet (32 m) tall, as measured from the sidewalk of South Street. The superstructure

990-498: A minaret, two mosques, a school and two ornamental gateways. The doors, windows, and architectural fittings and decoration were real, imported from demolished buildings in Cairo. The street was populated by real Egyptians in costumes, including musicians, belly dancers, artists, craftsmen, and vendors of various Egyptian foods and delicacies. The exposition featured several other examples of picturesque habitations and villages from around

1100-430: A range of spectacles including Buffalo Bill Cody and his Wild West Show, with the sharpshooter Annie Oakley . Transport around the exposition was partly provided by the 3 kilometre (1.9 mi) 600 mm ( 1 ft  11 + 5 ⁄ 8  in ) gauge Decauville railway at Exposition Universelle . The exposition railroad was reported to have carried 6,342,446 visitors in just six months of operation. Some of

1210-446: A rooftop penthouse, and first- and second-story mezzanines were installed as part of the conversion. The additions totaled over 17,000 square feet (1,600 m). Furthermore, the interior spaces were clad with glossy mahogany, including the club on the fifth floor. There is also a restaurant, lounges, bars, a cafe, and terraces for Casa Cipriani's private membership club. Ferry lines from Manhattan to Staten Island began operating under

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1320-528: A small Pavillon of Electricity for an electrician named Ferdinand de Boyéres, located just outside the exposition site at avenue de Suffren. The Pavilion of electricity was demolished immediately after the exposition, and the cafe was torn down in 1910. the exhibition will be famous for four distinctive features. In the first place, for its buildings, especially the Eiffel tower and the Machinery Hall; in

1430-456: A special function, as the residence of the President of France when he visited the exposition. Many smaller but picturesque buildings were included within or adjacent to the exposition. The architect Hector Guimard , then just twenty-two years old, built his first two buildings for the exposition; The cafe-restaurant Au Grand Neptune at 148 Quai Louis-Bleriot (Paris 16th arrondissement), and

1540-533: A striking contrast to the very modern Palace of Machines, next to it. It was the idea of Baron Delort Gléon, an art collector and specialist in Egyptian art, with financial support from Charles De Lesseps, the head of the Egyptian committee for the exposition, and son of Ferdinand De Lesseps, the builder of the Suez Canal . It was a winding street, with buildings at odd angles, and featured, among other buildings,

1650-480: A system of hinged arches (like a series of bridge spans placed not end-to-end but parallel) made of steel or iron. Although often described as being constructed of steel, it was actually made of iron. One important goal of the exposition was to present the latest in science and technology. Thomas Edison visited the exposition to visit a pavilion devoted to his recent inventions, including an improved phonograph with clearer sound quality. Another new technology that

1760-459: A tower exactly to those dimensions. The structural design was created by two Eiffel engineers, Maurice Koechlin and Émile Nouguier, who along with Eiffel himself, received the patent for the plan. An Eiffel architect, Stephen Sauvestre, designed the curving form and decoration which gave the tower its distinctive appearance. Eiffel was granted exclusive rights for twenty years to operate the tower and its restaurants and viewing platforms. A site next to

1870-639: A variety of architectural metals and originally contained a large waiting area on the second floor. The Battery Maritime Building is the only Exposition Universelle -style ferry building still operating in Manhattan. The similarly-designed westernmost section of the Whitehall Street Ferry Terminal, serving ferries to Staten Island , was rebuilt as the Staten Island Ferry Whitehall Terminal ;

1980-399: A waiting area along South Street. The waiting area was originally accessed by two vestibules and contained a smoking area, ticket office, and other booths. The walls and furniture of the waiting area were decorated with wood, and the entire space was initially illuminated by a large skylight. Behind the waiting area, to the south, was a passageway 40 feet (12 m) wide. This passage connected

2090-445: Is 316 feet (96 m) wide and four stories high. Ferry slips 5, 6, and 7 are spanned by tall steel arches, which are supported by four pairs of pilasters with ornate capitals . Slip 5 can accommodate vessels which load passengers from either the bow or the sides. Slips 6 and 7 can accommodate 149-passenger vessels which load passengers from the bow. The entrances to each of the slips can be sealed with elaborate swinging gates. Above

2200-693: Is between the Staten Island Ferry Whitehall Terminal to the west and the Downtown Manhattan Heliport to the east. The structure measures about 250 feet (76 m) wide and 140 feet (43 m) long. According to the New York City Department of City Planning (DCP), the land lot measures 311 by 556 feet (95 m × 169 m). The Battery Maritime Terminal is close to the New York City Subway 's South Ferry/Whitehall Street station , served by

2310-443: Is made of steel framework and reinforced concrete floor slabs, which are finished with terrazzo . The main floor-girders vary in depth from 8 inches (200 mm), for I-beams, to 45-inch (1,100 mm) box girders . The ceilings are made of wire lath and finished in plaster. The columns of the superstructure vary in size; the larger columns are generally 25 inches (640 mm) thick and are built up of riveted steel sections. Along

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2420-793: Is the M15 Select Bus Service route via a bus loop directly at the front door of the terminal. The M15 , M20 and M55 local routes stop on nearby streets. Starting in 1877, South Ferry also hosted a four-track elevated terminal with access to all Manhattan elevated train lines running up Second , Third , Sixth and Ninth Avenues. The station was closed in 1950. 40°42′4″N 74°0′47″W  /  40.70111°N 74.01306°W  / 40.70111; -74.01306 Exposition Universelle (1889) The Exposition Universelle of 1889 ( French pronunciation: [ɛkspozisjɔ̃ ynivɛʁsɛl] ), better known in English as

2530-574: The 1 ​, N , ​ R , and ​ W trains, as well as bus services at Peter Minuit Plaza . Through the Whitehall Terminal, access to the Staten Island Ferry is also available. There is taxicab service outside the terminal as well. The Battery Maritime Building was designed by the firm of Richard Walker and Charles Morris and constructed by Snare & Triest Co. The project's construction

2640-517: The 1889 Paris Exposition , was a world's fair held in Paris , France , from 6 May to 31 October 1889. It was the fifth of ten major expositions held in the city between 1855 and 1937. It attracted more than thirty-two million visitors. The most famous structure created for the exposition, and still remaining, is the Eiffel Tower . The exposition was held to celebrate the 100th anniversary of

2750-709: The Big Apple Circus , the Dance Theater Workshop , and the American Indian Community House were among the organizations that expressed interest in the Battery Maritime Building. The Dance Theater Workshop and the arts group Creative Time were named as the tenants for the Battery Maritime Building in October 1988. The groups would occupy 30,000 square feet (2,800 m), half of which would be rent-free; they had to pay

2860-824: The COVID-19 pandemic in New York City , opening as Casa Cipriani in August 2021 with 47 suites. The 2021 edition of the Independent Art Fair was also hosted in the Battery Maritime Building in late 2021. The project was officially finished in December 2021. The same year, as part of the Lower Manhattan Coastal Resiliency project, city officials proposed constructing a new terminal for Governors Island ferries and demolishing

2970-776: The Fulton Ferry ), crossed between Manhattan and Brooklyn from streets that in each city would eventually be renamed "Fulton Street". The "New Ferry" (also called the Catherine Ferry ) crossed on a more northerly route than the Old Ferry, between Catherine Street in Manhattan, and Main Street in Brooklyn. As the City of Brooklyn grew, the area south of Atlantic Avenue, known as South Brooklyn , began to become developed, but

3080-526: The Netherlands , Portugal , Russia and Sweden . Nonetheless, many citizens and companies from those countries participated, and a number of countries had their participation entirely funded by private sponsors. They included Germany and Alsace-Lorraine , Austria-Hungary, Belgium, Brazil , China , Denmark , Egypt , Spain, the United Kingdom and its colonies, Haiti , Italy, Luxembourg ,

3190-562: The South African Republic , Switzerland , Uruguay and Venezuela . The British dominions of New Zealand and Tasmania also took part. Because of the theme of the exposition, celebrating the overthrow of the French monarchy, nearly all European countries with monarchies officially boycotted the exposition. The boycotting nations were Germany , Austria-Hungary , Belgium , Spain , the United Kingdom , Italy ,

3300-713: The Statue of Liberty . During the mid-20th century, the United States Army operated ferries to Fort Jay , an Army installation on Governors Island , from a pier on the Battery , west of the Whitehall Street Ferry Terminal. Because of this, the Governors Island and Staten Island ferry routes crossed over each other and, because of strong currents between the Battery and Governors Island, ferryboats needed additional space between each other. In November 1955,

3410-528: The Storming of the Bastille , which marked the beginning of French Revolution , and was also seen as a way to stimulate the economy and pull France out of an economic recession. The exposition attracted 61,722 official exhibitors, of whom twenty-five thousand were from outside of France. Admission to the exposition cost forty centimes, at a time when the price of an "economy" plate of meat and vegetables in

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3520-612: The Union Ferry Company in 1922. As part of the takeover, the two ferry lines were relocated from Union Ferry's Whitehall Street slips to the municipally operated South Street ferry slips. In 1935, Allen F. Stokes filed plans to renovate the South Street Ferry Terminal for $ 200,000. The changes included an upgraded fire protection system and expanded staff facilities. After the 1930s, the ferry terminal remained largely neglected for several decades. By

3630-607: 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 . South Ferry is served by several New York City Subway stations. Also serving the ferry terminal directly

3740-488: The Battery Maritime Building as a city landmark in 1967. The terminal was also added to the National Register of Historic Places in 1976. At some point in the 20th century, the ferry terminal also served as a homeless shelter. By the early 1980s, the New York City Department of Transportation (DOT) was investigating the feasibility of using the Battery Maritime Building's second floor for commercial tenants. At

3850-510: The Battery Maritime Building's ferry slips. Cipriani refinanced the hotel with a $ 100 million loan from Acore Capital in May 2022. Throughout the year, public ferry service to Governors Island operates out of slip 7. The ferries are operated by the Trust for Governors Island. Ferries run half-hourly every day of the week. The ferries travel to Soissons Landing on the north side of the island, covering

3960-409: The Battery Maritime Building. Seastreak is tentatively expected to return to slip 5 after construction is complete. South Ferry (Manhattan) The name "South Ferry" derives from a more southerly route of service than previous ferry lines between what were then the separate cities of New York and Brooklyn , rather than from being at the southern tip of Manhattan. The "Old Ferry" (later renamed

4070-523: The Brooklyn ferry terminal took place in September 1908. The terminal was completed by 1909. The present Battery Maritime Building comprised the terminal's eastern wing and became known as the South Street Ferry Terminal, while the ferries to Staten Island used the western wing, which became the Staten Island Ferry's Whitehall Terminal. The city took over the Atlantic and Hamilton Avenue ferry lines from

4180-486: The Cipriani South Street event space, operated by Cipriani S.A. , and a 47-room hotel called Casa Cipriani . The Beaux-Arts building was built from 1906 to 1909 and designed by the firm Walker and Morris as the easternmost section of the partially completed Whitehall Street Ferry Terminal. What is now the Battery Maritime Building was designed to serve ferries traveling to Brooklyn . The structure uses

4290-630: The Coast Guard in 2003 as part of an effort to open the island to the public. GIPEC subsequently leased slips 6 and 7 at the Battery Maritime Building for ferry service to Governors Island. The GIPEC started operating the Battery–Governors Island ferry line in 2005. The exterior work was completed early the same year. Also in 2005, SHoP Architects proposed relocating the Battery Park Underpass's entrance eastward to allow

4400-607: The Department of Marine and Aviation moved into the third and fourth floors following the $ 1.2 million renovation. The Battery Maritime Building was used by other city agencies as well. The United States Coast Guard took over Governors Island from the Army in 1966. The Coast Guard continued to use the terminal to provide vehicle and passenger service to Governors Island for its 3,000 residents and 2,000 daily commuters. The New York City Landmarks Preservation Commission (LPC) designated

4510-846: The Eiffel Tower on a narrow strip of land along Quai D'Orsay and the banks of the Seine. The houses were arranged by century and by continent, beginning with Garnier's idea of prehistoric dwellings and huts, through the Ancient Egyptians, Greeks, Romans and other early civilizations, through the Middle Ages and Renaissance to the modern then houses from Japan, and China and the homes of Eskimos, and dwellings from Africa, Japan, China and Lapland, and dwellings of Native Americans, Aztecs and Incas. The dwellings were designed by Garnier with more imagination than strict historical accuracy, but they were picturesque and very popular. The Roman House had

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4620-406: The Eiffel Tower. In addition to the architectural displays of France's colonies, the exposition showcased a construction of villages inhabited by natives of the colonies, to be observed by viewers. The colonized people had their daily lives displayed for the exposition visitors, which made some of them uncomfortable. Samba Lawbé Thiam, a jeweler from Senegal who was part of the 1889 Exposition, said

4730-632: The Forest of Dampierre . Other major buildings included the Palaces of Liberal and Fine Arts, each with a richly decorated dome, facing each other across a garden and reflecting pool between the Eiffel Tower and the Palace of Machines. Both were designed by Jean-Camille Formigé with a similar plan. Both buildings had modern iron frames abundance of glass, but were completely covered with colorful ceramic tiles and sculpted decoration. The exposition included

4840-518: The French section was the Imperial Diamond , at the time the largest diamond in the world. The Mexican pavilion featured a model of an exotic (for Europeans) Aztec temple, a "combination of archeology, history, architecture, and technology." The presentation of Joseph Farcot 's steam engine, that had already won a prize in 1878. Most of the buildings were on military land or city-owned park land, and they were demolished shortly after

4950-582: The Netherlands, Peru , Portugal, Romania , Russia, Finland and Sweden. The exposition occupied two large sites. The main site was on Champs de Mars on the Left Bank, which had been the parade ground of the Ecole Militaire , and had been occupied by the 1878 Universal Exposition . This was the site of the major part of the exposition, including the Eiffel Tower , Palace of Machines, and

5060-538: The Palaces of Fine Arts and Liberal Arts. The exposition extended across the Seine to the right bank, to the Trocadero Palace , which had been built on the heights for the 1878 Exposition. The slope from the Trocadero Palace down to the Seine was filled with terrace, fountains, gardens and horticultural exhibits. A separate, smaller site was located on the esplanade of Les Invalides , which hosted

5170-596: The River was chosen, despite the infiltration of river water, since that land was owned by the City of Paris, and the tower could be kept in place after the exposition was completed. The construction lasted two years, two months and five days, and involved five hundred workers, who assembled eighteen thousand iron pieces, each of five meters and carefully numbered, which had been made at a factory in Levallois-Perret ,

5280-531: The South Street Ferry Terminal was to be rehabilitated, and office space for the Department of Marine and Aviation would be added. In 1956, the department requested about $ 3 million from the New York City Planning Commission for the South Street Ferry Terminal's reconstruction. The fourth story was added the following year as part of the renovation. The structure was renamed the Battery Maritime Building in 1959, when 1,100 employees of

5390-406: The U.S. Army agreed to lease slip 7 at the South Street Ferry Terminal to eliminate the conflicts between the ferry lines. The Army, which was replacing smaller steam-powered ferries with two larger new diesel-electric boats, required larger ferry slips and docks at its new location. Simultaneously, renovations of the adjoining Staten Island Ferry slips were announced in 1953. As part of the project,

5500-431: The Whitehall Street Ferry Terminal been completed, it would have formed a single, more massive concourse connected to the Staten Island Ferry slips. A concourse runs around the perimeter of the Great Hall. During the 2010s, a steel double stair was constructed between the first story and the second-story concourse, similar in design to a previous steel stair on the site. A daylight measuring 16 by 130 feet (4.9 by 39.6 m)

5610-620: The Whitehall Street Ferry Terminal, which was proposed to contain seven slips when it was constructed from 1906 to 1909. What is now the Battery Maritime Building was originally served by ferries traveling to 39th Street in South Brooklyn (now the neighborhood of Sunset Park in Brooklyn ). The Staten Island Ferry terminal comprised slips 1, 2, and 3, which served ferries to St. George Terminal in St. George, Staten Island . The unbuilt slip 4

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5720-589: The area lacked easy access to the ferry terminals in the northern parts of that city. Calls for a new ferry on a more southerly route were first brought up before the New York City Council in 1825, the proposal being commonly known as the "New South Ferry" since 1826, but progress stalled until the issue was taken up by the City of Brooklyn in 1833. The South Ferry Company established the South Ferry on May 16, 1836 to connect Lower Manhattan to

5830-423: The building as a city landmark in 1967 and it was added to the National Register of Historic Places in 1976. The underused structure was proposed to be converted into a cultural center during the 1980s as part of the failed South Ferry Plaza development. The exterior was restored by Jan Hird Pokorny Architects between 2001 and 2005. Plans to convert the interior into a hotel and event space were approved in 2009, but

5940-507: The building's area as 140,000 square feet (13,000 m). According to a document published by the New York City Economic Development Corporation (EDC) in 2011, the Battery Maritime Building contained 107,430 square feet (9,981 m). The interior has many decorative steel columns, beams, and molded ceilings, much of which dates from the original design. The terminal's first story contains

6050-472: The building's renovation, the interior has a gross floor area of 163,964 square feet (15,232.8 m) and a zoning floor area of 163,964 square feet (15,232.8 m). Sources vary on how much floor area the Battery Maritime Building contained before its expansion in 2020. According to a report issued by the Manhattan borough president 's office in 2008, the building has 115,586 square feet (10,738.3 m) of gross area. A New York Times article from 2002 cited

6160-417: The center section was never built. The terminal was used by Brooklyn ferry routes until the mid-20th century and subsequently fell into disrepair. The building was used as a Governors Island ferry terminal starting in 1956, while the upper floors were used by various city agencies, including the Department of Marine and Aviation beginning in 1959. The New York City Landmarks Preservation Commission designated

6270-503: The city planned to look for a tenant to restore the former waiting room on the Battery Maritime Building's second story. City officials received proposals from seven developers in August 1985. The Zeckendorf Company was selected in July 1986 to develop a 60-story tower above the Whitehall Terminal at a cost of $ 400 million. The city government would retain ownership of the terminals and lease the site to Zeckendorf for 99 years. In 1987, with

6380-584: The construction of a public plaza outside the Battery Maritime Building. However, no progress was made on the plaza plan in the following decade. After the exterior renovations were completed, the EDC and GIPEC started advertising for proposals to redevelop the interior. In 2006, the city considered opening a food market in the building. The marketplace idea, modeled after the San Francisco Ferry Building , subsequently proved infeasible because

6490-613: The construction of the Brooklyn–Battery Tunnel . Not only did the Hamilton Avenue ferry never resume service, the Atlantic Avenue ferry was also discontinued two months later due to a loss of profits. In subsequent years, the South Street Ferry Terminal fell into disrepair, though it remained in operation. Its original multi-colored appearance was replaced by a paint color intended to emulate the copper patina of

6600-677: The conversion encountered numerous delays, with the event space opening in 2019. The Battery Maritime Building is at 10 South Street , on the shore of the East River , in the Financial District of Manhattan in New York City . It is slightly east of South Street's intersection with Whitehall Street , adjacent to a ramp connecting the FDR Drive and the Battery Park Underpass . The Battery Maritime Building

6710-468: The design details had decayed. The city government conducted a survey of the building's conditions in 1999. The survey found that the exterior and roof needed at least $ 30 million worth of renovations. The EDC started soliciting proposals for a $ 36 million, two-year renovation of the building in May 2001. Exterior restoration work started in late 2001 and about 200 workers vacated the building's offices in 2002. The deteriorating wooden piers were restored, and

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6820-464: The distance between the destinations in about seven minutes. NY Waterway also formerly operated rush-hour commuter service to Port Liberté, Jersey City , out of slip 5. Other NY Waterway services operate out of Pier 11/Wall Street . In August 2020, SeaStreak operated ferries from slip 5, having relocated from Pier 11/Wall Street due to dredging near Pier 11. As of May 2022, SeaStreak ferries had been relocated to Pier 11 to accommodate construction at

6930-477: The entire width of the exposition site, the land between the avenue de la Bourdonnais and the present avenue de Suffren, and covered 77,000 square meters, with 34,700 square meters of glass windows. At 111 meters, the Gallery covered the longest interior space in the world at the time, It cost 7,430,000 Francs, or seven times the cost of the Eiffel Tower. It was later used again at the 1900 Universal Exposition and then destroyed in 1910. The Gallery of Machines used

7040-456: The exposition closed. The most notable survivor was the Eiffel Tower , which had been deliberately built on Paris city-owned land, to avoid demolition. The Exhibition included a building by the Paris architect Pierre-Henri Picq. This was an elaborate iron and glass structure decorated with ceramic tiles in a Byzantine-Egyptian-Romanesque style. After the exposition, the building was shipped to Fort-de-France in Martinique and reassembled there,

7150-452: The exposition was intended to be an educational element, but has also historically been framed as an exploitative and patronizing display of colonized people without their consent. This colonial section of the exposition was linked to the Champs de Mars site by a corridor of pavilions along the left Bank. This corridor, at the foot of the Eiffel Tower, also featured a display called "The History of Human Habitation", with model houses depicting

7260-430: The exposition, was the tallest structure in the world at the time. A competition to build what was simply called "A tower of three hundred meters" with a base one hundred meters wide, was announced in 1886. It was won by the construction firm of Gustave Eiffel , which had recently built the iron frame of the Statue of Liberty . The Eiffel firm had advance knowledge of the project and, beginning in 1884, had already designed

7370-456: The exterior was refurbished and repainted in its original multiple-color scheme by Jan Hird Pokorny Architects. The renovation costs had increased to $ 58 million due to the discovery of additional deterioration. The facade was disassembled into 11,600 pieces and the roof had to be supported by temporary framework after one of the building's corners had settled by 2 inches (51 mm). In addition, 40 short tons (36 long tons; 36 t) of new steel

7480-443: The extraordinary manner in which South American countries are represented. The exposition itself included several large theatres for concerts and spectacles, including one for the dancers of Les Follies Parisiens. A separate theatre presented the music and dance of the French colonies in Indochina. Operas and concerts were also given in the grand hall of the Trocadero Palace. Outside the exposition, other theatres and venues presented

7590-419: The facade's I-shaped steel stanchions . The steelwork on the remainder of the building contains decorative motifs such as paneled lattice work, raised moldings , and elaborate cross bracings . Unlike in other structures of the same era, the steel structural members were left exposed without any cladding. The roof was intended as a recreational area. Originally, the portion of the roof devoted to this purpose

7700-409: The ferry slips is a penthouse with a row of double-hung windows. The land-facing side, along Whitehall Street to the north, is 263 feet (80 m) wide and two stories high. It consists of five bays of sash windows and entries, flanked by six pairs of columns that are topped by decorative capitals and brackets . The columns support a hip roof , and the second floor of the land side contains

7810-453: The following: "We are very humiliated to be exhibited this way, in huts like savages; these straw and mud huts do not give an idea of Senegal. In Senegal ... we have large buildings, railroad stations, railroads; we light them with electricity. The Bureau of Hygiene does not tolerate the construction of this type of hovel. Those [existing ones] that fall into disrepair are not replaced." The incorporation of indigenous colonized individuals in

7920-764: The foot of Atlantic Avenue in Brooklyn and the month-old Brooklyn and Jamaica Railroad (renamed Atlantic Avenue Railroad, later the Atlantic Avenue Railroad's streetcar line , later still part of the South Side Railroad of Long Island , now the Atlantic Branch of the Long Island Rail Road ) through the Cobble Hill Tunnel . "South Ferry" was also the name of the Brooklyn landing and ferry house . In

8030-601: The history of domestic architecture, designed with much imagination by Charles Garnier , architect of the Paris Opera . There were twenty-two different entrances to the exposition, around its perimeter. They were open from 8 a.m. until 6:00 p.m. for the major exhibits and palaces, and until 11:00 in the evening for the illuminated greens and restaurants. The major ceremonial entrance was located at Les Invalides consisting of two tall pylons with colorful ornament, like giant candelabras. The Eiffel Tower , built especially for

8140-485: The island. Today, it houses over 250,000 books and an ethnographic museum, and stands as a tribute to the man it is named after who led the movement to abolish slavery in Martinique . The exposition featured numerous fountains and reflecting pools, particularly in the mall that ran between the Eiffel Tower and the Palace of Machines. The largest fountain, near the Eiffel Tower, was entitled "The City of Paris enlightens

8250-600: The locomotives used on this line later saw service on the Chemins de fer du Calvados and the Diégo Suarez Decauville railway . Celebrities and dignitaries from around the world visited the exposition. Thomas Edison , with his wife and daughter, visited the exposition on August 14, 1889, his third day in France, to visit the exhibit where his improved phonograph was being demonstrated. He also ascended to

8360-561: The mid-20th century, competition from the New York City Subway resulted in a decline in ferry traffic. Further competition came from the construction of vehicular bridges and tunnels across the East River. The 39th Street ferry service shut down on March 16, 1938, having failed to make a profit for twelve years. The Hamilton Avenue ferry was "temporarily" combined with the Atlantic Avenue ferry in June 1942 because its operation interfered with

8470-592: The municipal authority of the Department of Docks and Ferries in 1905, and ferries from Manhattan to Brooklyn were taken over by the city the following year. After the consolidation of these ferry lines, plans for the Beaux-Arts Whitehall Street Ferry Terminal in Lower Manhattan were approved by the city's Municipal Art Commission in July 1906, and Walker and Morris were named as architects later that year. The structure

8580-662: The nations, there were pavilions of specialized industries, such as the Suez Canal company, the pavilion of the Transatlantic steamship company, the telephone and electricity pavilions, and the Pavilions of gas and oil. The Palace of Food Products was a very large and ornate structure, presenting French food and wine products. One of its highlights was an enormous sculpted wooden barrel from Champagne Mercier that could hold 200,000 bottles of champagne. An unusual display

8690-505: The next year. In April 2016, Dermot withdrew from the project and Stoneleigh Capital signaled its intention to take over as the lessee. The project was 55 to 60 percent complete at the time. Stoneleigh ultimately did not take over the lease. In late 2016, the NYC Regional Center sued Dermot for not paying interest on the loans, the EDC also sued Dermot for nonpayment of rent, and the NYC Regional Center threatened to foreclose on

8800-429: The operating costs and raise $ 4 million to renovate the interior. Officials planned to start renovating the Battery Maritime Building in 1990 and open the building to the public in 1993. Conversion of the Battery Maritime Building commenced in 1990. Some performances and temporary exhibitions were to be held there until the conversion was completed. According to the plans by renovating architect Diller Scofidio + Renfro ,

8910-470: The original detailing, which had mostly been removed over the years, and reconstructing the superstructure, which was badly deteriorated. Two stories were also added to the building. The event space, Cipriani South Street, hosted its first event in November 2019. When Cipriani took over the lease, the hotel was scheduled to be completed in mid-2020. The hotel's opening was subsequently delayed to 2021 due to

9020-466: The pavilions of the French colonies. This section featured a large assortment of outdoor restaurants and cafes with foods from Indochina, North Africa, and other cuisines from around the world. The colonial pavilions conveyed the multiculturalism of France's colonies, the largest of them being the Palais Central des Colonies, designed by Stephen Sauvestre , who notably contributed to the design of

9130-415: The property. The lease was transferred in 2017 to a group that included Cipriani S.A. After Cipriani took over the lease, the number of hotel rooms was reduced and the proposed restaurant was downsized. Additional funds were provided in 2018, with Midtown Equities taking a 30 percent stake in the project. Thierry Despont was named as architect for the converted structure. The conversion included restoring

9240-447: The real estate market. The Whitehall Terminal's ceiling and roof were gutted by a major fire that September, though the Battery Maritime Building was not damaged. By 1996, the Coast Guard had moved its operations off Governors Island, and ferry service from the Battery Maritime Building stopped operating. Through 2000, the building's office space was used for storing DOT documents. The building's facade had deteriorated over time, and many of

9350-489: The redevelopment of the Battery Maritime Building. Dermot, along with the Poulakakos family of restaurateurs, signed a contract in July 2012 that allowed them to lease the structure for up to 99 years. Work was further delayed after Hurricane Sandy that October, which caused damage to the neighborhood and increased the project's costs. The hotel project received additional funding in 2014, and some progress had been made by

9460-559: The revival of ferry service in the New York–New Jersey Harbor Estuary area, the city government started renting out slip 5 at the Battery Maritime Building for ferry companies. That April, the Public Development Corporation and Department of Cultural Affairs started soliciting proposals from cultural groups to take space in the Battery Maritime Building. The Twyla Tharp Dance Foundation,

9570-442: The second floor lacked a loading dock. By 2007, Dermot Construction had won the bid to restore the building's interior at a cost of $ 150 million. The company planned to add a 140-room hotel atop the existing structure, designed by Rogers Marvel , as well as remove the fourth story. Marvel and structural engineering firm Silman determined that a fifth story would need to be constructed atop the existing ferry building. The LPC approved

9680-462: The second place, for its Colonial Exhibition, which for the first time brings vividly to the appreciation of the Frenchmen that they are masters of lands beyond the sea; thirdly, it will be remembered for its great collection of war material, the most absorbing subject now-a-days, unfortunately, to governments if not to individuals; and fourthly, it will be remembered, and with good cause by many, for

9790-460: The space would have contained a ground-floor entry lobby, flanked by offices on the second story. The waiting room, containing movable equipment for performances and exhibitions, was the firm's first successful design for an auditorium. KG Land was also a partner in the development project, which had stalled by late 1990. The South Ferry Plaza project was canceled in January 1991 due to a decline in

9900-437: The third and fourth floors were being renovated into a 47-room hotel called Casa Cipriani. Part of the first floor continues to serve as a terminal for ferries to Governors Island . Architectural metals including stamped zinc and copper, rolled steel , and cast iron were used in the building's design. These materials are more widely used on the water-facing side, to the south, than on the other facades. The water-facing side

10010-527: The third level. In 1909, when Eiffel's concession formally ended, it was decided to preserve the Tower permanently. A second monumental building on the site was the Galerie des machines , by the architect Ferdinand Dutert and engineer Victor Contamin , which had originally been built for the 1878 Universal Exposition . It was a huge iron and glass structure which contained the industrial displays. It occupied

10120-400: The time, the building was used by the Coast Guard ferry terminal and the Department of Ports and Terminals' offices. In 1984, the city laid out plans to redevelop the Whitehall Terminal and Battery Maritime Building. The Whitehall Terminal would be replaced, and the developer would restore the adjacent Battery Maritime Building, an official city landmark that could not be demolished. Accordingly,

10230-478: The two transverse driveways to slips 5 and 7, each measuring 51 feet (16 m) wide. It served as a vehicular loading area for wagons and motor vehicles. The modern terminal contains the waiting area, ticket area, and restrooms for the Governors Island ferry line between slips 6 and 7. As of 2021, the section of the ground floor between slips 5 and 6 contains a lobby for the Casa Cipriani hotel, surrounded by

10340-889: The viewing platform of the Eiffel Tower, where he was met by a group of Sioux Indians who were at the exposition to perform in Buffalo Bill's Wild West Show. He returned to the Eiffel Tower later in his visit (Sept 10), where he was hosted for a lunch in Eiffel's private apartment on the Tower, along with the composer Charles Gounod . Other prominent visitors included the Shah of Persia Nasereddin Shah , Prince of Wales (the future Edward VII ) and his wife, Princess Alexandra ; artists Antoni Gaudi , James McNeill Whistler , Edvard Munch , Rosa Bonheur and Paul Gauguin ; U.S. journalist and diplomat Whitelaw Reid ; author Henry James ; Filipino patriots José Rizal and Marcelo H. del Pilar ; and inventor Nikola Tesla . A central attraction in

10450-441: The viewing platform, though the elevators were not yet in service, and they had to climb by a narrow winding stairway. By the time the exposition finished, after 173 days, 1,968,287 persons had ascended the tower. When the exposition ended, the tower was used for a time as a weather station. In 1904, Eiffel proposed to the French military that a radio transmitter, designed by the pioneer radio engineer Edouard Branly , be placed on

10560-401: The waterfront, the building rests upon thick concrete structural piers set over wooden piles, driven into the riverbed to the rock surface. Along the land, the concrete structural piers descend to the rock 20 to 30 feet (6.1 to 9.1 m) deep. Subway tunnels run directly under the terminal. According to zoning documents filed with the New York City Department of Buildings in 2020, during

10670-503: The world watching, cut the cable with an axe. The elevator's fall was halted ten feet above the ground by the Otis safety brakes. There were pavilions especially devoted to the telephone and to electricity, and others devoted to maritime navigation, and another, the Palais de Guerre or Palace of War, to developments in military technology, such as naval artillery. Prefabricated metal housing

10780-483: The world with its torch." The fountain was designed by Jean-Camille Formigé , who designed the nearby Palaces of Fine Arts and Liberal Arts. The other major fountain, not far away, was "The Five Parts of the World", illustrating the continents. It was designed by Francis de Saint-Vidal. The Rue de Caire ("Street of Cairo") was a popular attraction designed to recreate the architecture and street life of Cairo . It provided

10890-520: The world, including a Javanese village and recreated houses of villages from Senegal, Benin, and other colonies, with costumed residents. The Pavilions of the participating nations were located along the edge of the Champ de Mars. The Latin American nations had particularly colorful and lavish structures. The Pavilion of Argentina was one of the largest and most decorative pavilions in the exposition. It

11000-593: Was 49,500,000 francs. It was the last of the Paris world's fairs to make a profit. The countries that officially participated in the exposition were Andorra , Argentina , Bolivia , Chile , Costa Rica , the Dominican Republic , Ecuador , the United States , Greece , Guatemala , Haiti , Hawaii , Honduras , India , Japan , Morocco , Mexico , Monaco , Nicaragua , Norway , Paraguay , Persia , Saint-Martin, El Salvador , Serbia , Siam ,

11110-593: Was also installed in the Great Hall. The third floor originally contained office space that could be used by the New York City Dock Board or rented out to other tenants. In the mid-20th century, the second story was converted to offices and the fourth story was built. When the Casa Cipriani hotel and the event space were added in the early 21st century, the converted interior included a 15,000-square-foot (1,400 m) spa and gymnasium, operated by Cipriani S.A. , as well as health club KX. A fifth story,

11220-401: Was another technology that appeared at the exposition. Gustave Eiffel developed a series of houses with roof and walls of galvanised steel, and wooden interiors, which could be rapidly put together or taken apart, largely for use in French colony of Indochina. Some of them served as ticket booths at the 1889 exposition; one of these old booths, now used as a shelter for hikers, can now be found in

11330-402: Was clad with 12-by-6-inch (300 mm × 150 mm) Welsh red tiles, set in cement and laid on a layer of ash concrete. The other sections of the roof were made of gravel. A 2,800-square-foot (260 m) skylight was installed in the center of the roof during one of the building's restorations. During the 1950s, the fourth floor was built on part of the roof. In the 2021 hotel conversion,

11440-409: Was designed by the French architect Albert Ballu , who won the 1887 design competition. It covered 1,600 square meters, and was fifty meters high, topped by five iron and glass cupolas and surrounded by a frieze of mosaics, ceramics and coloured glass ornaments. After the exposition closed, it was taken apart and shipped to Buenos Aires , where it stood until it was dismantled in 1952. In addition to

11550-623: Was installed and 14 concrete bases were replaced. Some of the facade's copper panels, described by an EDC spokesperson as "irreplaceable", were stolen during the renovation. The city also solicited bids to restore and operate the Maritime Building's interior in 2001. The interior renovations were projected to cost $ 26 million, but because the building was a city landmark, the interior renovation would be eligible for federal tax credits. The Governors Island Preservation and Education Corporation (GIPEC) assumed operation of Governors Island from

11660-486: Was overseen by C. W. Staniford, the chief engineer of the city's Department of Docks, as well as assistant engineer S. W. Hoag Jr. It was inspired by the Exposition Universelle and is the only remaining ferry building in that style in Manhattan. The Battery Maritime Building contains three ferry slips, numbered 5, 6, and 7. These are the three easternmost ferry slips of a never-completed larger terminal:

11770-414: Was promoted at the exposition was the safety elevator, developed by a new American company, Otis Elevator . Otis built the elevators carrying passengers up the legs of the Eiffel Tower to the first level. When journalists expressed concern about the safety of the elevators, Otis technicians filled one elevator with three thousand kilograms of lead, simulating passengers, and then, with journalists from around

11880-527: Was the "History of Habitation", designed by Charles Garnier , the architect of the Paris opera house named for him. He was then 61 and had designed very few other major projects since the Opera. Although he had also signed a petition, along with other prominent writers and artists, that denounced the Eiffel Tower as an atrocity, he agreed to design a series of houses to illustrate the history of human habitation. The houses, separated by gardens, were placed close to

11990-599: Was to replace an earlier building on the site that had operated since 1887. Walker and Morris's plans were approved in February 1907 and a budget of $ 1.75 million was allotted to the work. The separate sections of the Whitehall Street Ferry Terminal were designed so they could be constructed separately while remaining visually similar. Work started on the Brooklyn ferry slips first, followed by the Staten Island ferry slips in 1908. A simple cornerstone -laying ceremony for

12100-421: Was to serve ferries from both Staten Island and South Brooklyn. The three sections were designed to be built independently of each other with a visually identical style. The westernmost slips were drastically rebuilt in 1956, but the easternmost slips remain as a part of the modern Battery Maritime Building. As of 2021, the building contains five stories. The second floor was being converted to an event space while

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