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Cortlandt Street Ferry Depot

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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, a complicated series of legal battles broke out over who should operate the ferries, where the crossing(s) should be located
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History of the County of Hudson, New Jersey: From Its Earliest Settlement to the Present Time, Charles Hardenburg Winfield, Kennard & Hay Stationery M'fg and Print. Company, 1874
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and reduced the journey time to a then remarkable 14 minutes. With the arrival of the railroad station at Paulus Hook in 1834 and the arrival of the
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Cortlandt Street Ferry Depot is visible underneath a pedestrian overpass at Liberty Street Ferry Terminal, 1938
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The first steam ferry service in the world began operations in 1812 between Paulus Hook and
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and at what rate passengers and other cargo should be charged for the journey.
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service on October 14, 1836 the number of passengers and the value of the
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one of the Pennsylvania Railroad's ferries across the Hudson,ca. 1905
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The Jersey City Ferry slip at the foot of Courtlandt Street, ca. 1860
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Over and Back: The History of Ferryboats in New York Harbor
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Railroad Ferries of the Hudson: And Stories of a Deckhand
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Index

Cortland Street Ferry Depot

Pennsylvania Railroad
West Shore Railroad
North River (Hudson River)
lower Manhattan
ferries to their terminal stations
Hudson River waterfront
Exchange Place
Weehawken
Liberty Street Ferry Terminal
Central Railroad of New Jersey
Communipaw ferry
Communipaw Terminal

Jersey City Ferry
Paulus Hook
Manhattan
Morris and Essex Railroad
Jersey City Ferry
Ninth Avenue Elevated
Cortlandt Street Station
Whitehall Terminal
Chambers Street Ferry Terminal
Liberty Street Ferry Terminal
Battery Park City Ferry Terminal
The Jersey City Ferry slip at the foot of Courtlandt Street, ca. 1860
Cortlandt and Liberty Street Ferries, ca. 1882
The New Brunswick one of the Pennsylvania Railroad's ferries across the Hudson,ca. 1905
Cortlandt Street Ferry Depot is visible underneath a pedestrian overpass at Liberty Street Ferry Terminal, 1938

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