The ferry was established on April 30, 1853, between Roosevelt Street and
Bridge Street in
Downtown Brooklyn. 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.
George Law's
Brooklyn Ferry Company introduced a ferry between
James Slip and South Tenth Street in Williamsburg on May 4, 1857. Effective March 28, 1859, the Brooklyn landing of the ferry was moved from South Tenth Street to Broadway, where the company's
Division Avenue Ferry landed. The
Union Ferry Company stopped running the Roosevelt Street-Bridge Street route in 1859, and sold the Roosevelt Slip to the Brooklyn Ferry Company, which moved its Broadway-James Slip ferry to Roosevelt later that year. In early 1860, the Brooklyn Ferry Company and the
Long Island Ferry Company (
Peck Slip Ferry) agreed to consolidate operations, and the Peck Slip route was abandoned in late 1860. ==See also==