I took the Staten Island / Brooklyn ferry with my folks to visit Grandparents in Bay Ridge in the late1950s and 1960s. Heading to Staten Island, I remember the large red neon signs advertising major banks. Those boats had names such as St. George, Diefenbach and The Tides. On the Brooklyn 69th Street Pier there was an old barge that kept getting ever lower in the water. My first on the Staten Island . Manhattan ferry was in 1958. Before the NY World's Fair of 1964-65, these were painted red with white lettering and the funnels were black. Some of these boats included the Gold Star Mother, Miss New York, Cornelius Kolff, and the Mary Murry. I attended high school in Manhattan from 1966-70 and so I would take the ferry to and from school and when worked summers beginning 1970, the oldest of these were out of service and the John F. Kennedy was added. I have not ridden the ferry in nearly 50 years. But I understand the Dad of one of my fellow elementary school classmates at OLGC in Tompkinsville is honored with his name on one of the modern vessels - John J. Marchi.
Love these old pictures of my Island.
Nice. Not enough photos of southwestern part of island facing Perth amboy nj
I took the Staten Island / Brooklyn ferry with my folks to visit Grandparents in Bay Ridge in the late1950s and 1960s. Heading to Staten Island, I remember the large red neon signs advertising major banks.
Those boats had names such as St. George, Diefenbach and The Tides. On the Brooklyn 69th Street Pier there was an old barge that kept getting ever lower in the water. My first on the Staten Island . Manhattan ferry was in 1958. Before the NY World's Fair of 1964-65, these were painted red with white lettering and the funnels were black. Some of these boats included the Gold Star Mother, Miss New York, Cornelius Kolff, and the Mary Murry. I attended high school in Manhattan from 1966-70 and so I would take the ferry to and from school and when worked summers beginning 1970, the oldest of these were out of service and the John F. Kennedy was added. I have not ridden the ferry in nearly 50 years. But I understand the Dad of
one of my fellow elementary school classmates at OLGC in Tompkinsville is honored with his name on one of the modern vessels - John J. Marchi.
I remember playing on the rotting tugboat and fishing/crabbing.