Wall Street Ferry - between 1900 and 1905
The old Wall Street Ferry House and the United States Army, Quartermaster Department at the Foot of Wall Street, East River waterfront in Manhattan. Photo by Detroit Photographic Company. Source: Library of Congress Prints and Photographs Division.
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The Wall Street Ferry (on the left) opened in May 1853, with three boats and ferry houses on both sides: Manhattan and Brooklyn at Montague Street. The Wall Street ferry franchise was granted by the city to Jacob Sharp & Co. on June 16, 1852. Jacob Sharp received generous favors from the Common Council and the process was considered fraudulent, denounced in the newspapers at the time. By 1873, the Union Ferry Company, originally organized in 1839, controlled the Fulton, Wall Street, Hamilton and South Ferries.
The Wall Street Ferry house in Manhattan was expanded and gained side towers around 1880. This ferry closed on July 28, 1912.
The original building.
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Wall Street Ferry - between 1900 and 1905
