Cortlandt Street Ferry Depot

's terminal at Cortlandt Street, 1857 As early as July 1764 a ferry began operating from Paulus Hook to Mesier's dock which was located at the foot of Courtland Street (where Cortlandt Street Ferry Depot would be built). and reduced the journey time to a then remarkable 14 minutes. the number of passengers and the value of the Jersey City Ferry continued to increase. The terminal was located one block west of the Ninth Avenue Elevated's Cortlandt Street Station which operated from 1874 until 1940. ==See also==

File:Jersey City Ferry, foot of Courtlandt Street, North River, from Robert N. Dennis collection of stereoscopic views.jpg|The Jersey City Ferry slip at the foot of Courtlandt Street, ca. 1860 File:New York by sunlight and gaslight - a work descriptive of the great American metropolis; its high and low life; its splendors and miseries; its virtu (1882) (14779729932).jpg|Cortlandt and Liberty Street Ferries, ca. 1882 File:Detroit Publishing - Pennsylvania Railroad ferry New Brunswick.jpg|The New Brunswick one of the Pennsylvania Railroad's ferries across the Hudson,ca. 1905 File:Liberty Street Ferry Terminal 1938.jpg|Cortlandt Street Ferry Depot is visible underneath a pedestrian overpass at Liberty Street Ferry Terminal, 1938 ==References==