, Service by the
Communipaw ferry dated back to 1661, from the village of
Communipaw during the
Dutch colonial period. The terminal opened in 1865 following the completion of the Central Railroad of New Jersey's Communipaw Terminal. bringing to an end 306 years of Communipaw ferry operations. The terminal was subsequently demolished and the waterfront was filled in to create
Battery Park City in the early 1970s. The
Cortland Street Ferry Depot, operated by the
Pennsylvania Railroad and the
West Shore Railroad, was located directly next to the terminal and also provided ferry service across the
North River from lower Manhattan to their
railroad terminals at
Exchange Place and
Weehawken, respectively. The terminal was located one block west of the
Ninth Avenue Elevated's
Cortland Street Station which operated from 1874 until 1940. During the 1980s, ferry service across the Hudson was restored by
NY Waterway and it has subsequently been expanded. Today the
Battery Park City Ferry Terminal is located a few blocks north of where Liberty Street Ferry Terminal and Cortland Street Ferry Depot once stood. ==See also==