The ferry wound up its hull and slipped away to park in the mainland dock for the night.
The original ferry slips inside the historic terminal were restored in 2011.
The ferry slipped away beneath his feet and sank below the waves, just as he was hauled into the air.
The Parks Commissioner, Henry J. Stern, counted down, and the swimmers splashed off eastward around the tip of Manhattan, past the ferry slips toward the Brooklyn Bridge.
By the end of the century the shores of the Hudson River were dominated by rail infrastructure including passenger terminals, ferries slips, and freight operations owned by several competing railroads.
Within a minute, a ferry big enough for six cars slipped in.
With a few jabs of the ferryman's pole at the trip's end, the ferry slips onto its landing.
My sense of how much things had changed increased two hours later when the ferry slipped into Silver Lake Harbor at Ocracoke Village.
That sum includes $43 million contributed by the Port Authority of New York and New Jersey, which leases ferry slips from New Jersey Transit for use by New York Waterway.
He was a "coolie," who hung around the ferry slips on a twenty-hour shift.