(Images from: King's Views of New York)
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Chelsea Piers - Hudson River, from ferry terminals at West 23rd St. to New West Washington Market at Little West 12th St., nine granite steamship piers, erected by the city, 1902-7 at a cost of $15,000,000; each 125 ft. wide and from 800 to 853 ft. long; two of them with fender extensions of 100 ft., making them 900 and 925 ft. long; berths for 16 of the largest ocean liners, with 250 ft. width of water between piers; steel superstructures, double-decked, 78 ft. high; first steamship to land at the new piers the "Lusitania," on her maiden trip in 1907; Cunard Line occupies the three southern piers, Nos. 53, 54 and 56; French Line, 57; Atlantic Transport, 58; Red Star, 59; White Star, 60 and 61; American Line, 62. - 1,381,639 passengers arrived in ocen steamships in 1913 and 462,131 sailed; total, 1,843,770.
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Municipa Ferry Terminals - at South Ferry (Atlantic Ave. Ferry), which, with Hamilton Ave. line, has slips between the big, modern $3,000,000 steel, copper and glass ferry-houses from which the city operates huge screw-propeller double-decked ferryboats to 39th St., South Brookly, and to Staten Island; each ferry-house has main waiting room 150 X 65 ft.
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West Street - looking north from Cortland St., with 200 ft. wide marginal street, giving access to piers and ferries; throuhfare constantly congested with trucks hauling merchandise, view shows West Shore and Pennsylvania R.R. ferry house, Lackawanna and Starin Terminal, N.Y. Central, Providence and Fall River Lines, crossed by foot bridges for passengers to ferries.
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U.S. Custom House - facing Bowling Green at foot of Broadway, occupying entire block between Whitehall and State Sts., to Bridge St., magnificent carved granite structure, finest of the sort in the world, erected 1901-7, at a cost of $7,200,000, including ground, on site of Fort Amsterdam (1626) and Government House (1787) and later headquarters of steamship lines. Embellished with stately Doric colonnades; cartouche emblematic of America, by Carl Bitter, crowning attic; great commercial nations represented on the cornice, in this order - Greece and Rome, by F.E. Elwell; Phoenicia, by F.W. Ruckstuhl; Genoa, by Augusta Lukeman; Venice and Spain, by F.M.L. Tonetti; Holland and Portugal, by Louis St. Gaudens; Scandinavia, by Johannes Gelert; Germany, by Albert Jaegers; FRance and England, by Charles Grafly.
...to be continued.
