South Ferry (ferry)

South Ferry (ferry)

The South Ferry was a ferry route connecting Manhattan and Brooklyn, New York City, United States, joining Whitehall Street (Manhattan) and Atlantic Avenue (Brooklyn) across the East River. Though the ferry is no longer operated, the name is still in use on the Manhattan side for the area around the foot of Whitehall Street, where the Staten Island Ferry lands (see South Ferry, Manhattan).

History

The South Ferry Company established the South Ferry on May 16, 1836 to connect Lower Manhattan to the Long Island Rail Road, newly-opened a month before to Jamaica. 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.Nathaniel Scudder Prime, [http://books.google.com/books?vid=OCLC01236721&id=elEOAAAAIAAJ A History of Long Island: from its first settlement by Europeans, to the year 1845] , pages 376 to 380] [cite BDE|title=History of South Ferry|md=August 22|y=1886|page=5]

ee also

*South Ferry, Brooklyn
*List of ferries across the East River

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