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Author : New York (N.Y.). Department of Docks and Ferries
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 92 pages
File Size : 40,7 Mb
Release : 1878
Category : Docks
ISBN : HARVARD:LI2U76
Author : Brian J. Cudahy
Publisher : Fordham Univ Press
Page : 504 pages
File Size : 44,6 Mb
Release : 1990
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : 0823212459
Ask the average American anywhere in the country to answer the association question "Staten Island" and you get "Ferry" in immediate response. what is regularly billed as "America's favorite boatride"- not least because a round trip still costs an astonishing twenty-five cents- is the last public survivor of New York Harbor's once immense fleet of those doughty double-ended ferryboats. Dozens of ferryboats in a myriad of liveries crossed the harbor's waterways as recently as one generation ago Most have vanished as though they never were, leaving in their ghostly wakes only fading memories and a few gorgeously restored ferry terminals. The handsomest of these terminals, on the New Jersey side of the Hudson, is probably the one dubbed by Christopher Morley the Piazza San Lackawanna. Over and Back captures definatively nearly two centuries of ferryboating in New York Harbor, by a master narrator of the history of transportation in America. In stories, charts, maps, photographs, diagrams, route lists, fleet rosters, and in the histories of some four hundred ferryboats, Brian J. Cudahy captures the whole tale as concisely as one could hope. The transportation expert, the ferry buff, the model builder, the urban historian: each will find grist for his or her mill. The photographs capture a highly significant footnote in America's past and present; the colored illustrations preserve some of the stylish rigs in which the owners garbed their boats, despite coal soot, oil smudge, and urban grime. Fully a third of the book comprises the most complete statistical compilation that the nation's public and private archives permit. The data show, among other things, that some of the former workhorses of New York Harbor are filling utilitarian or social roles elsewhere in the United States and overseas, and that the newest boats in the harbor began life along the Gulf of Mexico and in New England.
Author : N. Y. Department of Docks and Ferries
Publisher : Forgotten Books
Page : 206 pages
File Size : 43,9 Mb
Release : 2017-10-27
Category : Reference
ISBN : 152852697X
Excerpt from Forty-Fourth Annual Report of the Department of Docks and Ferries: For the Year Ending December 31, 1915 Equipment put into service, apportionment of expenditure Estimates on Contracts, see Contracts. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.
Author : New York (N.Y.). Department of Docks and Ferries
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 116 pages
File Size : 46,7 Mb
Release : 1918
Category : Docks
ISBN : HARVARD:LI2U4P
Author : New York (N.Y.). Dept. of Docks
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 120 pages
File Size : 52,8 Mb
Release : 1916
Category : Docks
ISBN : UIUC:30112032683986
Author : New York (N.Y.). Dept. of Docks
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 160 pages
File Size : 55,9 Mb
Release : 1879
Category : Docks
ISBN : UIUC:30112032684026
Author : Kurt C. Schlichting
Publisher : JHU Press
Page : 257 pages
File Size : 54,5 Mb
Release : 2018-05-15
Category : Architecture
ISBN : 9781421425238
"Nature provided New York with a sheltered harbor but the city with a challenge: to find the necessary capital to build and expand the maritime infrastructure. In the 17th and 18th centuries, the city's government did not have the responsibility or the fiscal resources to develop needed port facilities. To build the infrastructure, the government awarded "water-lots" to private individuals to build wharves and piers, surrendering public control of the waterfront. For over 250 years private enterprise ran the waterfront; the city played a peripheral role. By the end of the Civil War chaos reigned and threatened the port's dominance. In 1870 the city and state created the Department of Docks to exercise public control and rebuild the maritime infrastructure for the new era of steamships and ocean liners. A hundred years later, technological change in the form of the shipping container and jet airplane rendered Manhattan's waterfront obsolete within an incredibly short time span. The maritime use of the shoreline collapsed, mirroring the near death of the city of New York in the 1970s. Ships disappeared and abandoned piers and empty warehouses lined the waterfront. The city slowly and painfully recovered. The empty waterfront allowed visionaries and planners to completely reimagine a shore lined with parkland. Along the new waterfront, luxury housing has transformed the waterfront neighborhoods where the Irish longshoremen once lived. A few remaining piers offer spectacular views of the city's waterways, now a most precious asset. The rebirth has been driven by complex private/public partnerships, with the city of New York playing only a peripheral role. The contentious question of private vs. public control of the waterfront remains a continuing issue in the 21st century"--
Author : Philadelphia (Pa.). Department of Wharves, Docks and Ferries
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 124 pages
File Size : 54,8 Mb
Release : 1912
Category : Docks
ISBN : OSU:32435066938499
Author : United States. War Department
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 1316 pages
File Size : 40,7 Mb
Release : 1912
Category : Electronic
ISBN : HARVARD:32044089510143
Author : Anonim
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 376 pages
File Size : 47,7 Mb
Release : 1888
Category : Electronic
ISBN : NYPL:33433066307038
Author : Philadelphia (Pa.). Department of Wharves, Docks and Ferries
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 178 pages
File Size : 48,5 Mb
Release : 1919
Category : Docks
ISBN : OSU:32435066949504
Author : United States. Bureau of Corporations
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 634 pages
File Size : 53,9 Mb
Release : 1910
Category : Harbors
ISBN : MINN:31951001547882N
Author : United States. Bureau of Corporations
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 512 pages
File Size : 45,6 Mb
Release : 1910
Category : Harbors
ISBN : NYPL:33433019096324
Author : United States. Bureau of Corporations
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 632 pages
File Size : 45,6 Mb
Release : 1910
Category : Harbors
ISBN : OSU:32435028098838
Author : Peter Cole
Publisher : University of Illinois Press
Page : 256 pages
File Size : 47,5 Mb
Release : 2010-10-01
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 9780252090851
The rise and fall of America's first truly interracial labor union For almost a decade during the 1910s and 1920s, the Philadelphia waterfront was home to the most durable interracial, multiethnic union seen in the United States prior to the CIO era. For much of its time, Local 8 was majority black, always with a cadre of black leaders. The union also claimed immigrants from Eastern Europe, as well as many Irish Americans, who had a notorious reputation for racism. This important study is the first book-length examination of how Local 8, affiliated with the Industrial Workers of the World, accomplished what no other did at the time. Peter Cole outlines the factors that were instrumental in Local 8's success, both ideological (the IWW's commitment to working-class solidarity) and pragmatic (racial divisions helped solidify employer dominance). He also shows how race was central not only to the rise but also to the decline of Local 8, as increasing racial tensions were manipulated by employers and federal agents bent on the union's destruction.