Staten Island Ferry Leaving Manhattan Photograph by John Telfer

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Staten Island Ferry Leaving Manhattan

by John Telfer

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Title

Staten Island Ferry Leaving Manhattan

Artist

John Telfer

Medium

Photograph - Photograph

Description

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While coming home from a meeting in Staten Island, New York I was aboard one of the many Staten Island Ferry's that travel back and forth between Staten Island and the seaport area of downtown New York. On this gorgeous looking day in November I was lucky to be able to get a good spot in the front of the Staten Island Ferry and see where we were going and everything in front of us. As we began to get closer to the seaport area where the Ferry I was on was going to dock I could see the Manhattan Skyline from the tip of the seaport area, but since I have several of those photos in my portfolio I wanted to concentrate on something I did not have and that was coming right at me. The Staten Island Ferry was departing from Manhattan and heading to Staten Island to drop off and pick up passengers and start its constant trip back and forth. I was lucky it was such a clear day but the water was a little choppy and the Staten Island Ferry as I photographed it was picking up speed and diving into the water to build up some speed as it crossed our Ferry's path.
For more information on the Staten Island Ferry please feel free to read below;
The ferry departs Manhattan from the Staten Island Ferry Whitehall Terminal, South Ferry, at the southernmost tip of Manhattan near Battery Park. On Staten Island, the ferry arrives and departs from St. George Ferry Terminal on Richmond Terrace, near Richmond County Borough Hall and Richmond County Supreme Court. Service is provided 24 hours a day, 365 days a year. The Staten Island Ferry is quite a reliable form of mass transit, with an on-time performance of over 96 percent. The Staten Island Ferry has been a municipal service since 1905, and currently carries over 21 million passengers annually on the 5.2-mile (8.4 km) run.
The five-mile (8 km) journey takes about 25 minutes each way. The ferry is free of charge, though riders must disembark at each terminal and reenter through the terminal building for a round trip to comply with Coast Guard regulations regarding vessel capacity and the placeholding optical turnstiles at both terminals.[1] Bicycles may also be taken on the lowest deck of the ferry without charge. In the past, ferries were equipped for vehicle transport, at a charge of $3 per automobile; however, vehicles have not been allowed on the ferry since the September 11, 2001, attacks.
For most of the 20th century, the ferry was famed as the biggest bargain in New York City. It charged the same one-nickel fare as the New York City Subway but the ferry fare remained a nickel when the subway fare increased to 10 cents in 1948. In 1970 then-Mayor John V. Lindsay proposed that the fare be raised to 25 cents, pointing out that the cost for each ride was 50 cents, or ten times what the fare brought in. On August 4, 1975, the nickel fare ended and the charge became 25 cents for a round trip, the quarter being collected in one direction only. The round trip increased to 50 cents in 1990, but the fare was eliminated altogether in 1997.
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