SI Ferries

mack

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SI Ferry (Man-SI):
Still active - used to be a nickel fare

Staten Island Ferry : The World For A Nickel - 1960's Travelogue / Educational Documentary

Old terminal - Manhattan side


Old terminal 1938:


1946 SI Ferry Terminal Fire (SI) - 9 Alarms - 3 Killed (1 FDNY LODD)/280 Injured:
http://www.silive.com/specialreports/index.ssf/2011/03/deadly_fire_destroys_staten_is.html

http://www3.gendisasters.com/new-york/19090/staten-island-ny-ferry-terminal-fire-june-1946

LODD at SI ferrt terminal fire June 1946 - FDNY Lineman HAROLD F. CLANDENING Telegraph Bureau


1991 SI Ferry Terminal Fire (Manhattan)
http://www.nytimes.com/1991/09/09/nyregion/big-fire-destroys-terminal-of-ferry-to-staten-island.html

2003 SI Ferry Crash (St George, SI):
http://www.nydailynews.com/new-york/staten-island-ferry-fatal-2003-crash-slams-terminal-40-hurt-st-george-dock-article-1.446737

2010 SI Ferry Crash:
http://www.cnn.com/2010/US/05/08/new.york.ferry.crash/index.html
http://www.nbcnews.com/id/37036423/ns/us_news-life/
Staten Island ferry crashes into terminal (MSNBC)


69th St Ferry (Bay Ridge, Bklyn -St George, SI)
Early 1960's ....69th St. .Staten Island ferry.







I believe there was a fireboat located on each side in the 1960s.



Perth Amboy Ferry (Perth Amboy, NJ - Tottenville, SI) operated 1867-1964




http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Perth_Amboy_Ferry_Slip



Bayonne Ferry (Bayonne NJ - Port Richmond, SI)






39th St Ferry (Bklyn - SI)




Cartaret Ferry (Cartaret, NJ - Travis, SI) 1922:

Travis used to be called "Linoleumville"

Additional note:  The town of Travis was originally named Long Neck. The name changed to Travisville. After a factory called The American Linoleum Manufacturing Company was built in 1873, the town became Linoleumville.  The area boomed. A ferry service started. The 300 acre factory was the first of its kind in America at that time.

 
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