A Staten Island Ferry Tale
Author: Catherine St. Jean
Publisher:
Published: 2003
Total Pages: 32
ISBN-13: 9781413445299
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Author: Catherine St. Jean
Publisher:
Published: 2003
Total Pages: 32
ISBN-13: 9781413445299
DOWNLOAD EBOOKAuthor: Catherine St. Jean
Publisher: Xlibris Corporation
Published: 2003-11-14
Total Pages: 35
ISBN-13: 1477165614
DOWNLOAD EBOOKThrough the eyes of young Paul, we get to experience a trip to Manhattan from the pilot house of the Staten Island Ferry. Its a special trip for Paul, whos been invited by the Captain. He will get to pass his favorite ship, the grandest ocean liner of them all, the Queen Elizabeth 2 on her way out to sea. On board with Paul, young readers will learn facts about the Ferry itself, as well as the navigational and historical significance of New York Harbor. "A Staten Island Ferry Tale" is part of The Noble Maritime Collections Traveling Library on Staten Island.
Author: Catherine Avery St. Jean
Publisher: Createspace Independent Publishing Platform
Published: 2011-10-06
Total Pages: 0
ISBN-13: 9781466391581
DOWNLOAD EBOOKPicture book about a ride on the Staten Island ferry.
Author: Staten Island Museum
Publisher: Arcadia Publishing
Published: 2014-09-01
Total Pages: 128
ISBN-13: 1439647062
DOWNLOAD EBOOKTake a ride on the Staten Island Ferry and explore the rich history behind New York's maritime attraction. Considered the "Best Ride in New York City," the Staten Island Ferry has been immortalized over the years in art, literature, film, and music. In the 19th century, cross-bay ferry riders complained of dangerous and unreliable private service. On October 25, 1905, the newly incorporated City of New York assumed ownership of the service, and the Borough class--the Brooklyn, Bronx, Richmond, Queens, and Manhattan ferryboats--was introduced. These were the largest ferries on the East Coast and made the crossing in 22.5 minutes. Today, the ferry is recognized as a New York icon and a symbol of the borough. A favorite destination for tourists, the Staten Island Ferry carries 22 million passengers annually. On a typical day, 109 trips move about 70,000 people across the harbor, making the Staten Island Ferry one of the most reliable forms of mass transit in the city.
Author: Patricia M. Salmon
Publisher:
Published: 2008
Total Pages: 172
ISBN-13: 9780971226722
DOWNLOAD EBOOKAuthor: Claire Jimenez
Publisher: Johns Hopkins University Press
Published: 2019-12-03
Total Pages: 190
ISBN-13: 1421434156
DOWNLOAD EBOOKInspired by Geoffrey Chaucer's The Canterbury Tales, this collection of loosely linked tragicomic short stories travels across time to explore defining moments in the island's history, from the 2003 Staten Island Ferry crash and the New York City blackout to the growing opioid and heroin crisis, Eric Garner's murder, and the 2016 presidential election.
Author: Theodore W. Scull
Publisher:
Published: 1982
Total Pages: 95
ISBN-13: 9780915276370
DOWNLOAD EBOOKAuthor: Brian J. Cudahy
Publisher: Fordham Univ Press
Published: 1990
Total Pages: 504
ISBN-13: 9780823212453
DOWNLOAD EBOOKAsk the average American anywhere in the country to answer the association question "Staten Island" and you get "Ferry" in immediate response. what is regularly billed as "America's favorite boatride"- not least because a round trip still costs an astonishing twenty-five cents- is the last public survivor of New York Harbor's once immense fleet of those doughty double-ended ferryboats. Dozens of ferryboats in a myriad of liveries crossed the harbor's waterways as recently as one generation ago Most have vanished as though they never were, leaving in their ghostly wakes only fading memories and a few gorgeously restored ferry terminals. The handsomest of these terminals, on the New Jersey side of the Hudson, is probably the one dubbed by Christopher Morley the Piazza San Lackawanna. Over and Back captures definatively nearly two centuries of ferryboating in New York Harbor, by a master narrator of the history of transportation in America. In stories, charts, maps, photographs, diagrams, route lists, fleet rosters, and in the histories of some four hundred ferryboats, Brian J. Cudahy captures the whole tale as concisely as one could hope. The transportation expert, the ferry buff, the model builder, the urban historian: each will find grist for his or her mill. The photographs capture a highly significant footnote in America's past and present; the colored illustrations preserve some of the stylish rigs in which the owners garbed their boats, despite coal soot, oil smudge, and urban grime. Fully a third of the book comprises the most complete statistical compilation that the nation's public and private archives permit. The data show, among other things, that some of the former workhorses of New York Harbor are filling utilitarian or social roles elsewhere in the United States and overseas, and that the newest boats in the harbor began life along the Gulf of Mexico and in New England.
Author: Patricia Smith
Publisher: Akashic Books
Published: 2012-11-06
Total Pages: 258
ISBN-13: 1617751294
DOWNLOAD EBOOKPresents a collection of short stories featuring noir and crime fiction about Staten Island, New York, by such authors as Todd Craig, Linda Nieves-Powell, S. J. Rozan, and Patricia Smith.
Author: Theresa Anarumo
Publisher: Arcadia Publishing
Published: 2019-04-29
Total Pages: 173
ISBN-13: 1439663548
DOWNLOAD EBOOKTake the ferry to this New York City borough and discover its colorful secrets, in a quirky history packed with facts and photos. Staten Island has a rich and fascinating cultural legacy that few people outside New York City's greenest borough know about. Chewing gum was invented on the island with the help of Mexican general Antonio López de Santa Anna. Country music legend Roy Clark got his start as a virtuoso guitar player on the Staten Island Ferry. Anna Leonowens, who worked with the king's children in the Court of Siam and was the basis for The King and I, came back to Staten Island to write about her experiences and run a school for children. Join native Staten Islanders Theresa Anarumo and Maureen Seaberg as they document the hidden history of the borough with these stories, and many more