Catherine Ferry (East River)

Manhattan Bridge, 1909, dwarfing the Catharine Ferry building at the end of Main Street Brooklyn

The Catherine Ferry was a ferry route connecting Manhattan and Brooklyn in the United States, joining Catherine Street in Manhattan and Main Street in Brooklyn across the East River.

The ferry, originally known as the New Ferry, was established on August 1, 1795 to supplement the Fulton Ferry (Old Ferry).[1] It eventually passed into the hands of Samuel Bowne, who sold it to Cyrus P. Smith and William F. Bulkley on March 24, 1852.[2] Being unable to compete with the one-cent fare adopted by the Brooklyn Union Ferry Company in November 1850, it was sold to the new Union Ferry Company of Brooklyn (the successor to the Brooklyn Union) in December 1853.[3][4]

References

  1. ↑ Nathaniel Scudder Prime, A History of Long Island: from its first settlement by Europeans, to the year 1845, pages 376 to 380
  2. ↑ "Catharine Ferry". Brooklyn Daily Eagle (Brooklyn, NY). March 29, 1852. p. 1.
  3. ↑ "Brooklyn Ferries". Brooklyn Daily Eagle (Brooklyn, NY). December 10, 1853. p. 2.
  4. ↑ "Brooklyn Ferries". Brooklyn Daily Eagle (Brooklyn, NY). July 18, 1870. p. 2.