Re: (rshsdepot) Broadway Ferry and Perth Amboy Ferry . . .

["Paul S. Luchter" <luckyshow_@_mindspring.com>]

rshsdepot
At Long Island City, there was the Borden Ave LIRR ferry, the South Side
ferry north of that, but if I recall correctly, the North
Shore&Flushing/Central RR had no ferry, giving that traffic to the LIRR?

You can see a view of the NY&MB ferry site near Quay Street in my article
about Bliss and Bushwick..

The South Side Ferry site would be entombed now within a very large
sanitation department building, possibly the ugliest use of waterside land
in all of the city...at Grand Street there is a nice little park between
other ugly sanitation buildings, plus an ancient historic furnace with
chimney...

I remember boarding tuscan red LIRR cars once, somehow one was still in the
mid-sixties commuter train...my favorite, that always was on the run to the
Long Beach Branch to my stop was a grey combination passenger-baggage car, I
always loved to wait standing in the baggage half and get out through the
huge sliding door (was it manual? I don't recall)

My questions on the Bay Ridge ferries was in other message...

There was the Perth Amboy ferry which was run by the SI Ry, which is
interesting- there was commuting from/to Jersey using the southern SI...even
without a bridge down there, but I guess we were only talking about
Brooklyn..Did the Els run their own ferries?..Steinway System would qualify
maybe with the ferries to Astoria linked to his horsecar/streetcar line,
maybe College Point ferry qualifies as a RR one as well since Poppenhausen
started that one... There is also that NH steamer the Maryland, from Port
Morris in the Bronx to Jersey City at Harsimus Cove (1876-1912)
- -----Original Message-----
From: James R. Guthrie <jguthrie_@_pipeline.com>
To: rshsdepot_@_lists.railfan.net <rshsdepot@lists.railfan.net>
Date: Tuesday, March 06, 2001 7:34 PM
Subject: Re: (rshsdepot) Broadway Ferry and Perth Amboy Ferry . . .


>rshsdepot
>Paul gave us a marvelous recap of ferries around the harbor, noting,
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>>That's ferry much it,
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>The NY&MB Railway had its terminal at Greenpoint. If you have a map,
>follow the Evergreen Branch and contnue north where it swicngs into
>Bushwick -- then west to Quay Street.
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>Now -- with all this talk of Ferry Stations/Terminals, and this being
>a railroad station list, maybe we should figure out which ferry lines
>were part of a "line of railroad" vs which ones stood on their own
>(whether or not they connected with railroads).
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>So -- in Brooklyn -- clockwise -- we have railroad ferries at Canarsie
>(to Rockaway), 65th St (LIRR,Sea Beach and NY&MB), 39th
>St (BBB&CI,PP&CI,LIRR), Atlantic Avenue (LIRR) Williamsburg/Kent Ave
>(South
>Side) and Greenpoint (NY&MB).  This does not include the El & trolley
>connections. That's quite a few more than we ordinarily envision, but
>how many envision purchasing LIRR tickets and boarding a Tuscan Red
>LIRR train of (now that's speculation, when did Tuscan Red come in ?
><g>) MP41s at Chambers Street under the Municipal Building?
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>Cheers,
>Jim
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