Staten Island Ferry Whitehall Terminal
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Whitehall Terminal
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Main entrance
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| Location | 4 South Street New York, NY 10004 United States |
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| Coordinates | 40°42′09″N 74°00′46″W / 40.702472°N 74.012833°WCoordinates: 40°42′09″N 74°00′46″W / 40.702472°N 74.012833°W | ||||||||||
| Operated by | New York City Department of Transportation | ||||||||||
| Line(s) | Staten Island Ferry | ||||||||||
| Connections |
NYC Subway:    at South Ferry–Whitehall  at Bowling Green  at Broad StreetNYCT Bus: M5, M15, M15 SBS, M20 |
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| Disabled access |  |
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| Opened | 1908–9 | ||||||||||
| Rebuilt | 2005 | ||||||||||
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The Staten Island Ferry's Whitehall Terminal, located at 4 South Street, at the corner of Whitehall Street, is the terminal in the South Ferry area of Lower Manhattan used by the Staten Island Ferry, which connects the two island boroughs of Manhattan and Staten Island in New York City. It was completely renovated and rededicated in February 2005 as a major integrated transportation hub for the ferry, buses, subways, taxis, and bicycle lanes. The ferry travels between the Whitehall Terminal in Manhattan and the St. George Terminal in Staten Island.
Originally, before the terminal was first built, ferry service was provided as early as the 1700s by individuals (and later private companies) with their own boats, but a ferry accident on June 14, 1901, involving two ferries from different companies, was used by the city as justification to take control of ferries as part of the public transportation system.
The original Whitehall Terminal, called the "Whitehall Street Ferry Terminal," served Brooklyn, Governors Island, Staten Island, and Weehawken, for passengers who traveled mainly by a system of elevated trains (the "els"). However, as subways replaced the els, and cars began to travel through an increasing number of bridges and tunnels such as the Brooklyn-Battery Tunnel, new terminal facilities were built at Whitehall with the primary purpose of serving the Staten Island Ferry. The ferry began operating under the municipal authority of the Department of Docks and Ferries on October 25, 1905, seven years after the five boroughs were consolidated into New York City. The "Municipal Ferry Terminal" was erected in 1908–9, during the administration of Mayor George McClellan, and designed by the architectural firm of Walker and Morris.
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