Roosevelt Street Ferry

Roosevelt Street Ferry

The Roosevelt Street Ferry was a ferry route connecting Manhattan and Williamsburg, Brooklyn, New York City, United States, joining Roosevelt Street (Manhattan) and Broadway (Brooklyn) across the East River.

History

The ferry was established on April 30, 1853, between Roosevelt Street and Bridge Street in Downtown Brooklyn. [cite BDE|title=City News and Gossip|md=April 30|y=1853|page=3] [cite BDE|title=Roosevelt and Bridge Street Ferry|md=April 30|y=1853|page=2] Being unable to compete with the one-cent fare adopted by the Brooklyn Union Ferry Company in November 1850, it was sold to the new Union Ferry Company of Brooklyn (the successor to the Brooklyn Union) in December 1853. [cite BDE|title=Brooklyn Ferries|md=December 10|y=1853|page=2]

George Law's Brooklyn Ferry Company introduced a ferry between James Slip and South Tenth Street in Williamsburg on May 4, 1857. [cite BDE|title=Special Notices|md=April 29|y=1857|page=3] Effective March 28, 1859, the Brooklyn landing of the ferry was moved from South Tenth Street to Broadway, where the company's Division Avenue Ferry landed. [cite BDE|title=City News and Gossip|md=March 29|y=1859|page=3] [cite BDE|title=The Ferry Franchises|md=July 6|y=1859|page=3]

The Union Ferry Company stopped running the Roosevelt Street-Bridge Street route in 1859, and sold the Roosevelt Slip to the Brooklyn Ferry Company, which moved its Broadway-James Slip ferry to Roosevelt later that year. [cite BDE|title=Ferry Proceedings|md=August 8|y=1859|page=2] [cite BDE|title=Cheap Ferriage|md=January 6|y=1860|page=2] In early 1860, the Brooklyn Ferry Company and the Long Island Ferry Company (Peck Slip Ferry) agreed to consolidate operations, [cite BDE|title=The Williamsburg Ferries|md=February 7|y=1860|page=2] and the Peck Slip route was abandoned in late 1860. [cite BDE|title=The Brooklyn Ferry Company|md=December 11|y=1860|page=2] cite BDE|title=Brooklyn Ferries|md=July 18|y=1870|page=2]

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