#106 Staten Island Ferry

The Bowery Boys: New York City History

Tom Meyers

Society & Culture, History, Documentary, Places & Travel

4.8 • 3.6K Ratings

🗓️ 25 June 2010

⏱️ 21 minutes

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Summary

The Staten Island Ferry is one of the last remaining vestiges of an entire ferry system in New York, taking people between Manhattan and its future boroughs long before any bridges were built. In Staten Island, the northern shores were spiked in piers, competing ferry operators braving the busy waters of New York harbor.In the first of our summer-long podcasts BOWERY BOYS ON THE GO on New York public transportation, I look at the history of Staten Island's famous ferry, its early precursors, its connection to Cornelius Vanderbilt and a Monopoly property, and its evolution when the city took it over in 1905.ALSO: Find out the curious story behind the name of Victory Boulevard and the neighborhoods of St. George and Tompkinsville.www.boweryboyspodcast.com Support the show: https://www.patreon.com/boweryboys

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0:00.0	The Bowry Boys Episode 106, the Staten Island Ferry.
0:04.1	Hey, it's The Bowry Boys.
0:05.6	Hey.
0:06.6	The Bowry Boys is brought to you by EuroTipo.com.
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0:19.8	Hi there, welcome to a very special episode of The Bowry Boys.
0:23.5	This is Greg Young with a solo show this week.
0:25.8	This is the first part of a summer long mini-series.
0:28.8	In fact, it'll be shows focusing on the history of New York public transportation.
0:33.0	And throughout the course of these episodes, hopefully you'll get a good sense of how
0:36.3	New Yorkers have gotten around the city for the past few hundred years.
0:39.8	But don't panic, these are standalone episodes as well, so if you came in here just looking
0:45.8	for the history of today's topic, the Staten Island Ferry, well you're in luck.
0:50.6	The Staten Island Ferry is of course one of New York's most popular tourist attractions,
0:54.8	and it's very obvious to see why.
0:57.6	It's free, and who doesn't like free.
1:00.2	It takes riders through New York Harbor and passes that chuv liberty and governor's
1:04.2	island.
1:05.2	For thousands of New Yorkers of course, it's critical to their daily commute.
1:08.8	But the Staten Island Ferry is also the last vestige of an entire ferry system that linked
1:13.4	Manhattan to its future burrows and to other destinations along the eastern seaboard.
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