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Cross Sound Ferry is a passenger and road vehicle ferry service operating between New London, Connecticut and Orient, New York on Long Island.. The service is privately owned and operated by Cross Sound Ferry Services, headquartered in New London and run by the Wronowski family, which also owns and operates the Block Island Express ferry service and the Thames Shipyard and Repair Company.
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The Bridgeport & Port Jefferson Steamboat Company, commonly referred to as the Bridgeport & Port Jefferson Ferry is a privately-owned transportation company that operates a passenger and vehicle ferry service across the Long Island Sound, between the city of Bridgeport, Connecticut and the Long Island village of Port Jefferson, New York.
An hour aboard the ferry offers the wind in your face and great views as you approach Block Island. But the 30 minutes aboard the high-speed ferry is a pretty sweet ride to cover the 12 miles from ...
In 1929, the ship was sold to a Captain Daniel F. McAllister, and renamed Hook Mountain. For the next ten years she operated as a tour boat, carrying passengers from Battery Park to Bedloe's Island and Governors Island. [8] Hook Mountain was sold to a Rhode Island company in 1939, and renamed Block Island.
Saturday's arrests after a fight were unusual, the chiefs say. In fact, from 2018 to 2023 Narragansett police only made 10 arrests at the ferry dock.
Block Island has no natural harbors; breakwaters were constructed in 1870 to form Old Harbor. New Shoreham, Rhode Island with Old Harbor in the foreground New Harbor - The Great Salt Pond. New Harbor was created in 1895 when a channel was dug to connect the Great Salt Pond to the ocean through the northwestern side of the island.
A 1910 map showing nearly the maximum extent of Rhode Island's railroads. As of February 2022, a total of five railroads operate in the U.S. state of Rhode Island.Freight services are largely operated by the Providence and Worcester Railroad, which interchanges with the state's only other freight railroad, the Seaview Transportation Company, a switching and terminal railroad serving the Port ...