The Battery Park City Ferry Terminal, is a passenger

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Battery Park City Battery Park City is a mainly residential planned community and neighborhood on the west side of the southern tip of the island of Manhattan in New York City. It is bounded by the Hudson River on the west, the Hudson River shoreline on the nort ...

Manhattan Manhattan (), known regionally as the City, is the most densely populated and geographically smallest of the five Boroughs of New York City, boroughs of New York City. The borough is also coextensive with New York County, one of the List of co ...

, serving

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along the

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and northeastern New Jersey. It provides

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to ferries,

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s, and

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boats in the

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. The terminal is primarily served by commuter ferries operated by

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, which refers to the terminal as Brookfield Place, and

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, 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

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also uses the terminal for its St. George route. The

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is moored at the foot of

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, consisting of four bow-loading slips and two side loading points to serve an additional slip. The

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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

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(in today's

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) dates back to at least 1661 with the founding of the Communipaw ferry during the Dutch colonial period. The

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began service in July 1764 between

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to Mesier's dock, which was located at the foot of Courtland Street. Both ferries continued to operate into the 19th and 20th centuries and docked at

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and the

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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

. In 1986

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

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trains serving the World Trade Center station.

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first commissioned the construction of the current terminal in 2000, but plans were put on hold following the

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. A 1,200-ton hull was constructed in Corpus Christi, Texas and was transported to Pier 39 in the Sunset Park neighborhood of

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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

is the largest operator of services in the terminal. It serves

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during weekday rush hours, 14th Street in

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weekdays except rush hours,

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and

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on weekdays only, and 7 days a week. The company also has a

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that reaches Belford via during weekday rush hours with an intermediate stop at

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provides ferry service to Liberty Landing Marina in

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with an intermediate stop at Warren Street. The service is operated by

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, which also operates

and ferries to the Statue of Liberty National Monument. Goldman Sachs commissions two ferries to run between the terminal and

, connecting its offices in Battery Park City and Jersey City, with service beginning February 19, 2013. ''York'' and ''Jersey'' are operated by

, 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

system began in August 2021. Battery Park City is the intermediate station between

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and

St. George Terminal St. George Terminal is a ferry, railway, bus, and park and ride transit center in the St. George neighborhood of Staten Island, New York City. It is located at the intersection of Richmond Terrace and Bay Street, near Staten Island Borough H ...

Bus

SeaStreak operates a rush hour shuttle bus to

for connecting service to

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on the

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. The Dowton Connection loop stops nearby the terminal.

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bus routes and stop on the nearby corner of Vesey Street and North End Avenue.

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* {{PANYNJ navbox, state=collapsed Port of New York and New Jersey Ferry transportation in New York City Transit hubs serving New Jersey Battery Park City Ferry terminals in Manhattan

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