Showing posts with label Staten Island Ferry. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Staten Island Ferry. Show all posts

Thursday, October 13, 2011

Photos and notes from The Staten Island Ferry

By Jack Brummet, NYC/Metro Editor

It may sound corny, but The Statue of Liberty was always one of my totems when I lived in NYC, and maybe even more so now, since my other totem was demolished on 9/11/2001.  When I actually lived in New York, the Staten Island Ferry cost either a nickel, a dime, or a quarter; it's free now. 

Taking the Staten Island Ferry, you see the fantastic working harbor, sailboats, cabin cruisers, cruise ships, barges, Governor's Island, and, of course, Ellis Island, and Staten Island. As the ferry pulls away from South Ferry you get great vistas of downtown, and the Brooklyn and Manhattan Bridges. You see the new skyscrapers in Hoboken, and after a while, the massive and extremely long Verrazano Bridge, that links Staten Island to Brooklyn.

It was good to see the Lady of the Harbor up close once again. I saw a few older folks--probably one-time immigrants--with tears in their eyes as we pulled alongside The Statue of Liberty. 

On my last trip here. . .three or four years ago, I didn't get out into N.Y Harbor, so it was a priority on this visit.  I like the Statue as a work of art, but mainly as a symbol of not so much what we are, as what we can be.

-Click photos to enlarge-

The Staten Island terminal at South Ferry

Near the ferry dock, with a view of--I think--Hoboken (Jersey City? Seacacus? I don't know...) 

Downtown, as the ferry pulls away.  In the left 1/3 of the photo, you
can see 1 World Trade Center under construction. They recently
changed the name from the previous and misguided title,
Freedom Tower.

The Verrazano Bridge, linking Staten Island to Brooklyn

a closer shot of the Verrazano, the longest bridge in
North and South America; when it was built in 1964,
it was the longest bridge in the world



The gal, with tourists lining the base
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Wednesday, March 19, 2008

Photo: Vicki Lenti on the Staten Island Ferry with Our Lady Of The Harbor A/K/A The Statue Of Liberty In The Distance


Click Victoria Lenti to enlarge

One thing we often did when we lived in New York City was hop on the Staten Island Ferry and go back and forth across the harbor to the forgotten borough. The ferry was especially great on those 95 degree 99% humidity days. In 1979, when this picture was taken [I think], the Staten Island Ferry still cost ten cents, and for that dime, you could ride back and forth all day long.
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