Liberty Street Ferry Terminal

Liberty Street Ferry Terminal or Liberty Street Terminal was the Central Railroad of New Jersey's passenger ferry slip in lower Manhattan and the point of departure and embarkation for passengers in New York City who traveled on the Central Railroad of New Jersey, Baltimore and Ohio Railroad, Reading Railroad and the Lehigh Valley Railroad. The Cortland Street Ferry Depot, operated by the Pennsylvania Railroad and the West Shore Railroad, was located directly next to the terminal and also provided ferry service across the North River from lower Manhattan to its railroad stations at Exchange Place and Weehawken, respectively. The terminal was located one block west of the Ninth Avenue Elevated's Cortland Street Station which operated from 1874 until 1940.

The terminal opened in 1865 following the completion of the Central Railroad of New Jersey's Communipaw Terminal. The terminal was serviced by the Communipaw ferry which dated back to 1661 in the Dutch colonial period in New Amsterdam. By the late 1960s the Jersey Central opted to close its station at Communipaw and the last ferry departed the terminal for Jersey City on April 26, 1967, bringing to an end 306 years of Communipaw ferry operations. The terminal was subsequently demolished and the waterfront was filled in to create Battery Park City in the early 1970s.

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