The Battery Park City Ferry Terminal, is a passenger
ferry terminal
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in
Battery Park City
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,
Manhattan
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, serving
ferries
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along the
Hudson River
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in
New York City
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to ferries,
water taxi
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s, and
sightseeing
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boats in the
Port of New York and New Jersey
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It includes the system of navigable wate ...
.
The terminal is primarily served by commuter ferries operated by
NY Waterway
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, which refers to the terminal as Brookfield Place, and Liberty Landing Ferry, which refers to it as World Financial Center. Both of these names refer to Brookfield Place, a shopping center and office building complex formerly known as the World Financial Center.
NYC Ferry
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also uses the terminal for its St. George route.
The floating dock is moored at the foot of
Vesey Street
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, consisting of four bow-loading slips and two side loading points to serve an additional slip. The
mono-hull
right
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Fundamental concept
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structure is the largest of its type in the world, covering acres, its two towers anchored to bedrock below the water's surface.
History
Regular ferry service between lower Manhattan and the Village of
Communipaw
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(in today's
Jersey City
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Liberty Street Ferry Terminal
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and the
Cortland Street Ferry Depot
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respectively. When these ferry slips were closed in the 1950s and 1960s they were demolished and the slips were filled in to create
Battery Park City
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.
In 1986
NY Waterway
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restarted ferry service across the Hudson River. A ferry slip opened at Battery Park City in 1989 with the intentions of reducing rush-hour crowds on the PATH trains serving the World Trade Center station.
Port Authority of New York and New Jersey
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first commissioned the construction of the current terminal in 2000, but plans were put on hold following the
September 11 attacks
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.
A 1,200-ton hull was constructed in
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and was transported to Pier 39 in the Sunset Park neighborhood of
Brooklyn
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in 2006, where the remainder of the terminal was constructed. At a total cost of $50 million, the terminal was then floated up to Battery Park City and opened March 18, 2009. The terminal reconstruction project was named Best Public Works Project by New York Construction News.
Since June 2013, ferries using the terminal, in accordance with the previously disregarded Rule 34(a)(i) (which prescribes maneuvering and warning signals), sound their horns to indicate their actions, creating what many local residents perceive as noise pollution.
Service
Ferry
NY Waterway
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is the largest operator of services in the terminal. It serves
Port Imperial
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in
Weehawken
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weekdays except rush hours,
Hoboken Terminal
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and
Paulus Hook Ferry Terminal
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on weekdays only, and 7 days a week. The company also has a
high-speed ferry
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The first high-speed craft were often hydrofoils or hovercraft, but in the 1990s catamaran and monohull designs become more popul ...
Liberty Landing Marina
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in
Jersey City
Jersey City is the second-most populous city in the U.S. state of New Jersey, after Newark.Hornblower Cruises
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, which also operates
NYC Ferry
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Goldman Sachs
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commissions two ferries to run between the terminal and
Paulus Hook Ferry Terminal
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, connecting its offices in Battery Park City and Jersey City, with service beginning February 19, 2013. ''York'' and ''Jersey'' are operated by
NY Waterway
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, flying the flag of the ferry service but not bearing its name or logo. The ferries are available to both employees and the general public since, by law, ferries utilizing the public terminal must be available to the public.
Service on the St. George route of the
NYC Ferry
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system began in August 2021. Battery Park City is the intermediate station between
West Midtown
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on the
Raritan Bayshore
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. The Dowton Connection loop stops nearby the terminal.
New York City Transit
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bus routes and stop on the nearby corner of Vesey Street and North End Avenue.
See also
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List of ferries across the Hudson River to New York City
The following ferries once crossed the North River (Hudson River) between New York City and New Jersey. There was no ferry service between 1967 and 1989, when it was restarted by New York Waterway.
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Horse ferries
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Liberty Street Ferry Terminal
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*
Cortlandt Street Ferry Depot
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