List of ferries across the Hudson River to New York City

The following ferries once crossed the North River (Hudson River) between New York City and New Jersey. There was no ferry service between 1967 and 1989, when it resumed by New York Waterway.^[1]

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Contents 1 Row and Sail 2 Steam 3 The Bronx 4 See also 5 External links 6 References

Row and Sail

Name	Manhattan end	New Jersey end	Operated	Notes
Bulls Ferry		Bulls Ferry	18th century	Bergen Township
Communipaw	Fort Amsterdam	Communipaw	1661-[2][3]	charter granted by Peter Stuyvesant, Director-General of New Netherland
Budd's Ferry[4]	Cortlandt Street	Harsimus	1808–1818
Weehawken Ferry[5]	Weehawken Street?	Weehawken Cove?	1700-	royal patent from Richard Coote, 1st Earl of Bellomont
Burdett's Landing	Bloomingdale	Edgewater Fort Lee	1758-	Hackensack Township
Tubby Hook Ferry[6]	Dyckman Street	Closter Dock?[7]

Steam

Name	Manhattan end	New Jersey end	Operated	Notes
Royal Blue Line Ferry[8].	South Ferry	Communipaw Terminal	(1897–1905)	The Royal Blue was a Baltimore & Ohio Railroad train to Washington, DC via CNJ and Reading Railroad
Communipaw Ferry	Liberty Street	Communipaw Terminal	(1864–1967)	Central Railroad of New Jersey
Paulus Hook Ferry	Cortlandt Street	Paulus Hook, later named Exchange Place	(1812–1949)[9]	Pennsylvania Railroad, later via its Jersey City Branch
West Shore Ferry	Cortlandt Street	Weehawken Terminal	(1885–1959)	West Shore Railroad
	Vesey Street	Hoboken
Hoboken Ferry[8]	Barclay Street	Hoboken Terminal	(1821–1967)	Delaware, Lackawanna and Western Railroad, later Erie Lackawanna Railway	Originally operated by the Hoboken Ferry Company
	Murray Street	Hoboken
Pavonia Ferry	Chambers Street	Pavonia Terminal		Erie Railroad
	Duane Street	Paulus Hook		Paterson and Hudson River Railroad
Franklin Street Ferry	Franklin Street	Weehawken		West Shore Railroad
	Hubert Street	Hoboken
Desbrosses Street Ferry	Desbrosses Street	Exchange Place		Pennsylvania Railroad
	Desbrosses Street	Weehawken Terminal		West Shore Railroad
	Spring Street	Hoboken
Spring Street Ferry	Spring Street	Fort Lee
	Clarkson Street	Communipaw Terminal		CNJ
Christopher Street Ferry[8].	Christopher Street	Hoboken Terminal	1838–1955	Delaware, Lackawanna and Western Railroad	Originally operated by the Hoboken Ferry Company
	13th Street	Bay Street, Jersey City		Pennsylvania Railroad
	13th Street	Weehawken Terminal		West Shore Railroad
	14th Street	Hoboken Terminal	DL&W
Hoboken Ferry	14th Street (Manhattan)	14th Street (Hoboken)
	23rd Street	Communipaw Terminal		Central Railroad of New Jersey
23rd Street Ferry	23rd Street	Exchange Place		Pennsylvania Railroad
Pavonia Ferry	23rd Street	Pavonia Terminal		Erie
	23rd Street (Manhattan)	Hoboken Terminal		DL&W
Hoboken Ferry	23rd Street (Manhattan)	14th Street (Hoboken)
	23rd Street	Edgewater
	34th Street	Exchange Place		(Pennsylvania Railroad)
Weehawken Ferry[8]	42nd Street	Weehawken Terminal	(1884–1959)	West Shore and NYC RR's
North Weehawken Ferry[8]	42nd Street	Slough's Meadow	(1859–1902)	New York Central Railroad (1872–1902)	Weehawken Ferry Co. (1859–1872)
Fort Lee Ferry	130th Street	Edgewater
Englewood Ferry[6]	1915–1942	Dyckman Street	Englewood			during colonial era at Closter Dock[10]

The Bronx

Name	Bronx end	New Jersey end	Operated	Notes

See also

Major railroad stations of New York City and vicinity Active terminals Penn Station · Grand Central Terminal · Hoboken Terminal · Atlantic Terminal · Long Island City Major transfer stations Jamaica · Newark Penn Station · Secaucus Junction Historical terminals Communipaw · Exchange Place · Pavonia · Weehawken

External links

Hudson County Public Tranportation 1926

References

1. ^ http://www.nytimes.com/1989/12/24/nyregion/ferryboats-again-becoming-a-familiar-sight-along-hudson.html?scp=22&sq=Pier%2011&st=cse
2. ^ http://books.google.nl/books?id=WaDY5i7D-3gC&pg=PA46&lpg=PA46&dq=communipaw&source=bl&ots=hDLYWTqf-b&sig=YmmuZZYbTKERrHeYstU8ZK9L7nI&hl=nl&ei=WuWrS4bwIZLp-Ab_zqWhDQ&sa=X&oi=book_result&ct=result&resnum=6&ved=0CCAQ6AEwBTiMAQ#v=onepage&q=communipaw&f=false
3. ^ http://www.nytimes.com/1989/12/24/nyregion/ferryboats-again-becoming-a-familiar-sight-along-hudson.html?scp=1&sq=Ferryboats%20Again%20Becoming%20a%20Familiar%20Sight%20Along%20Hudson&st=cse
4. ^ A brief history of Harsimus Cove
5. ^ History of the Hudson River Ferries
6. ^ ^{a b} Washington Heights history Tubby Hook
7. ^ Closter Dock Road
8. ^ ^{a b c d e} Kenneth T. Jackson: The Encyclopedia of New York City: The New York Historical Society; Yale University Press; 1995. P. 398-400.
9. ^ http://thehistorybox.com/ny_city/nycity_evolution_ferry_boats_article00335.htm
10. ^ [httpwww.hmdb.org/marker.asp?marker=7208 Closter Dock Road]

• A Compilation of the Ferry Leases and Railroad Grants Made by the Corporation of the City of New York, 1860
• A Compilation of the Existing Ferry Leases and Railroad Grants Made by the Corporation of the City of New York, 1866
• Brian J. Cudahy, Over and Back: The History of Ferryboats in New York Harbor
• Arthur G. Adams, The Hudson Through the Years
• History of the Hudson River Ferries
• Brooklyn Eagle Alamanac describing available service
• Courtcase 1897 describing traffic
  • Breakwater and Pavonia collision