The free Staten Island Ferry operates between the St. George Ferry Terminal on Staten Island and the Whitehall Terminal in Lower Manhattan. The trip is about 25 minutes long. The Ferry is free. Schedule and more info: nyc.gov/statenislandferry
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.HistoryOriginal terminalOriginally, before the terminal was first built, ferry service was provided as early as the 1700s by individuals 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 . 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.
Get the closest view of the Statue of Liberty and New York’s most storied sites; such as Ellis Island, the 9-11 Memorial, South Street Seaport, Governors Island, the Brooklyn Bridge and much more. Our harbor cruises offer a terrific overview and a chance to orient yourself, while learning about New York City’s history and architecture. Whether it is your first time in New York City or your hundredth, these boat rides are a unique way to experience the beauty of the city’s skyline and waterways. Visitors of all ages will enjoy one of our sightseeing cruises and all of our boats can accommodate the special needs of most passengers.
South Ferry – Whitehall Street is a New York City Subway station complex in the Manhattan neighborhood of Financial District, under Battery Park. The complex is shared by the IRT Broadway – Seventh Avenue Line and the BMT Broadway Line. It is served by the: 1 train at all times R train at all times except late nights N train during late nights only Formerly two unconnected stations, the 2009 completion of the new South Ferry IRT terminal added a free transfer between the 1 and the N, R and (now discontinued) W trains at the older Whitehall Street station. In 2013, the MTA also added a connection to the old South Ferry station while the new station was closed.This station complex is the third on the site to bear the name South Ferry. The second, opened from 1905 to 2009, served the IRT Broadway – Seventh Avenue Line and Lexington Avenue lines. The first was an elevated station opened from 1877 to 1950, and served the former IRT Ninth, Sixth, Third, and Second Avenue lines.
From May through October, the clubhouse is anchored in New York Harbor just and north of Ellis Island. This location offers superb views of the sailboat races and skyline. The clubhouse serves as a spectator platform for members and guests to watch the races, an educational center for teaching sailing and as an events space for corporate and member parties. From November through April, the clubhouse is docked at North Cove marina. The Champagne Bar on the main deck is the winter gathering spot for members. The club also runs a series of winter educational seminars onboard. During the summer when the clubhouse is anchored in the harbor, transportation is provided by Admiral’s Launch, a USCG certified launch. The launch departs from North Cove Dock F every 1/2 hour. The departure times are: 5:30 p.m., 6:00, 6:30. 7:00, 7:30, etc. Members who show their membership card get to ride the launch for free. There is a $10 launch fee for guests (round trip). Come have a drink, watch races, and enjoy an amazing view of the NY skyline! Follow us on twitter @WilliamWallMYC
Schooner Pioneer was built as a sloop in Marcus Hook, Pennsylvania in 1885 to carry sand mined near the mouth of the Delaware Bay to an iron foundry in Chester, Pennsylvania. Ten years later she was re-rigged as a schooner. In the days before paved roads, small coastal schooners such as Pioneer were the delivery trucks of their era, carrying various cargoes between coastal communities: lumber and stone from the islands of Maine, brick on the Hudson River, and oyster shell on the Chesapeake Bay. Almost all American cargo sloops and schooners were wood, but because she was built in what was then this country’s center of iron shipbuilding, Pioneer had wrought-iron hull. She was the first of only two cargo sloops built of iron in this country, and is the only iron-hulled American merchant sailing vessel still in existence. By 1930, when new owners moved her from the Delaware River to Massachusetts, she had been fitted with an engine, and was no longer using sails. In 1966 she was substantially rebuilt and turned into a sailing vessel once again. Today she plies the waters of NY Harbor carrying adults and children instead of cargo in her current role as a piece of “living history.”
The Battery Maritime Building is a ferry terminal at 11 South Street at the corner of South and Whitehall Streets near South Ferry at the tip of Manhattan Island in New York City. It is used for excursion trips and, since 1956, as the ferry terminal to Governors Island. The Beaux-Arts building was built from 1906 to 1909 as the Municipal Ferry Pier, and was used by ferries traveling to 39th Street in Brooklyn. It was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1976DescriptionDesigned by the firm Walker and Morris, it used a variety of architectural metals, including cast iron, rolled steel, and stamped zinc and copper, and the vaults under the porch roof utilize Guastavino tiles. The building was originally constructed with a wide central stairway to large upper level waiting room. The upper level had a direct connection to the elevated train station that served it, the Staten Island Ferry Whitehall Terminal, and Lower Manhattan. The terminal had three slips: 5, 6, and 7, its lower level serving as a vehicular loading area for wagons and motor vehicles. A Staten Island Ferry Terminal was constructed at the same time and appeared as a two slip twin. That building was gutted by fire in 1991 replaced with an interim structure that was replaced in 2009.
I like to imagine Fulton and South Streets in 1812 when Peter Schermerhorn completed the 12 buildings that comprise Schermerhorn Row, when people came from all over New York to marvel at this row of Federal-style warehouses on the East River. In those days the piers were crowded with ships from all over the world discharging their cargoes of coffee, tea, cotton, molasses, and countless other trade goods upon the piers of South Street. The trade represented by these ships and the counting-houses, hotels, and warehouses of the South Street Seaport is the very trade that built the growing New York City and through it the United States of America. In the late 1960s, visionary preservationists set aside a collection of entire city blocks in the South Street Seaport district as an area worthy of care and attention. These blocks of early- to mid- nineteenth century buildings, coupled with a series of piers crowded with historic ships would tell the vital story of the formation and growth of New York, a city built on—and because of—its deep natural harbor and its connection through the Erie Canal to the inner states and territories of the new nation. Today, more than two hundred years after Schermerhorn Row was completed, New York is a very different place. The Row is no longer the largest building in the city; it is dwarfed in fact by the surrounding financial district. The piers are no longer crowded with ships, but that same deep-water harbor is seeing a renaissance of education, of commercial and ferry service, of oyster aquaculture, and of attention from New Yorkers. Indeed, now more than ever the story of the formation of New York—the story of a city built on its waterways—is critical to our city. This is not a dry history, but a living tale of growth, of sacrifice, and of opportunity. The story and its reverberations play out in the education programs aboard our schooners PIONEER and LETTIE G. HOWARD. They are carried in the hearts of the scores of volunteers who work regularly and without pay to preserve our tug W.O. DECKER and the mighty square-riggers PEKING and WAVERTREE. They burn brightly in the lamps of the lightship AMBROSE. Although Hurricane Sandy is behind us, the challenges we face are still daunting. However the very same spirit that led Schermerhorn and others to build, to grow, and to prosper in early New York will once again carry the day. For here we have a Museum, not of artifacts and buildings and ships, though we have those. Not of interpretive signs, galleries, and stories, though those abound as well. Here we have a museum of the people. A museum that thrives as the beating heart of the historic South Street Seaport district. Welcome to South Street Seaport Museum. Our dedicated staff and volunteers (who are educators, sailors, preservationists, and some of the finest humans on the planet) are ready to welcome you aboard our ships and into our galleries and shops. We work together toward the next successful chapter of our “little museum that could.” Please join us for a visit, join as a member, and join the ranks of the proud volunteers who take a firsthand role in the preservation of old New York and the building of new New York. I look forward to seeing you soon at South Street. Captain Jonathan Boulware Executive Director
The New York City Police Museum is dedicated to preserving the history of the New York City Police Department, the worlds largest and most famous police service.
Welcome to the Film and Video Center's official Facebook Page! The Film and Video Center (FVC) of the Smithsonian Institution National Museum of the American Indian is a unique national center for Native American and indigenous film and media. Through its screenings and information services, it provides the public with in-depth access to film and other media produced by and about indigenous peoples of the Western Hemisphere and Hawai’i. The FVC’s offices are located in the museum’s George Gustav Heye Center in New York City. The FVC organizes a variety of local, national, and international screening programs, both independently and in partnership with other Native and film organizations. Major programs include: • Native Cinema Showcase (annual), Santa Fe • At the Movies series (monthly), New York • Animation Celebration! (annual), New York The FVC also presents daily screenings for children and the general public, touring video showcases, and other special programs. While on-topic discussion is encouraged, we ask that you express yourself in a civil manner and treat other users with respect. The Smithsonian also monitors and may remove posts consistent with its terms of use, as described at http://si.edu/Termsofuse#user-gen.
New York… One Art Space, a new exhibition space at 23 Warren Street in Tribeca. The 1700-square foot venue is dedicated to the promotion of international contemporary art, celebrating established figures and introducing new artists to enrich the New York art community’s aesthetic diversity.
The Shirley Fiterman Art Center, in partnership with the BMCC Foundation Board, a not-for-profit organization, is dedicated to raising funds for student scholarships, and ensuring the success of its students, who come from every borough of New York City, and countries around the world, seeking better lives. Art ahead, is a series of curated exhibitions that explores risk taking and sparks conversation on art. The goal of the series is to engage students, faculty, staff and the community of BMCC, as well as a larger audience throughout New York City, in a dialogue of art and its role in our daily lives. Access to art is one priority of the series. Another is starting a relationship with art that will grow throughout a person’s life. Art will be available for sale at the event, with proceeds benefiting the BMCC Foundation Scholarship Fund.
If you're an artist or art lover and you're in or near NYC this Friday, you gotta check out The Collaborators: An interactive live art exhibition. We find the most talented emerging artists from around NYC to collaborate on an original work of art in front of a live audience. We invite each amazing artist to paint in our studio/gallery as a group of classy and creative guests enjoy this intimate and provocative experience of witnessing and interacting with the artists as they create. Each artist creates using their own unique process and personality so no two evenings are ever the same. Over the course of three events, three different artists take there turn to create one single masterpiece. Each work of art that is created is exhibited in our gallery and available to purchase by art collectors. We then select three different artists to work on a new piece in the same process. Our goal is to cultivate relationships with dedicated artists and provide a platform for them to collaborate, exhibit and reach their audience.
Founded in 2003, MINUS SPACE presents the past, present, and future of reductive art on the international level.
Recognizing the difficulties faced by talented photographers in gaining exposure and recognition in today's crowded field, our goal is to create new opportunities for emerging talent to be seen and discovered. United Photo Industries have a Gallery to exhibit emerging photographers but also produce exhibition and projects outside of the white box such as PHOTOVILLE (www.photovillenyc.org) and Photo fences.....
Based in spirit on the carefully curated and academically rigorous Kunsthalle model found in Europe, Kunsthalle Galapagos is a hybrid between artist-oriented nonprofit and commercial gallery.
Located in New York City, the world's first and foremost vertical metropolis, The Skyscraper Museum celebrates the City's rich architectural heritage and examines the historical forces and individuals that have shaped its successive skylines. Through exhibitions, programs and publications, the Museum explores tall buildings as objects of design, products of technology, sites of construction, investments in real estate, and places of work and residence.
Postmasters Gallery has been named “Best 2014 New York Gallery” by the Village Voice, the same year it celebrated its 30th anniversary. The gallery opened in East Village in 1984, moved to Soho in 1989 and in 1998 to Chelsea. In October 2013, after 15 years in Chelsea, Postmasters opened its new 6000 sqf ground-floor space at 54 Franklin Street in Tribeca. The current location allows us to present two exhibitions simultaneously. We represent young and established artists of all media and actively seek new forms of creative expression to show them in the context of traditional formats. The artworks are generally content-oriented, conceptually based, and - most importantly - reflective of our time. Postmasters has a long history of showing new media art beginning with - now seminal – 1996 exhibition “Can You Digit?” Painters (David Diao, Austin Lee, Steve Mumford, Adam Cvijanovic and William Powhida), sculptors (Monica Cook, John Powers, Daria Irincheeva), photographers (Mark Dorf, Chris Verene), installation and conceptual artists (Diana Cooper, Sally Smart) are represented along the video, new media and internet artists like Guy Ben Ner, Shamus Clisset, Jennifer & Kevin McCoy, Ryder Ripps, Rafael Rozendaal, Ernesto Klar, Serkan Özkaya, Eva & Franco Mattes, Federico Solmi and Wolfgang Staehle. for more of us follow us on -> Instagram: @postmastersgallery -> Twitter: Magda - owner/director: @magdasawon Tamas - owner/director: @bloater Paulina - director: @piniakot
Located in the heart of Tribeca, A+E Studios is an exhibition space dedicated to facilitating dynamic partnerships between artists, collectors, and innovative brands. In close collaboration, Jessica Speiser (Gallery Director) and Annie Shinn (Gallery Co-Owner) strive to present exhibitions that place the work on display within relevant historical, social, and cultural contexts in order to reveal the shape shifting forces and abstract ideas at the intersection of contemporary culture and its artistic products. Since opening its doors in 2014, the gallery has provided a platform for emerging artists working across all mediums to engage broad audiences in the 2,300 square foot space on West Broadway.
The Museum of Jewish Heritage, located in Battery Park City in Manhattan, New York City, is a memorial to those who perished in the Holocaust. The building, designed by Roche-Dinkeloo, is topped by a pyramid structure called the Living Memorial to the Holocaust. The museum opened in 1997. More than 1.5 million visitors from all over the world have visited the museum. The mission statement of the museum is "to educate people of all ages and backgrounds about the broad tapestry of Jewish life in the 20th and 21st centuries — before, during, and after the Holocaust."