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Whitehall Street stretches four blocks to the southern end of FDR Drive, adjacent to the Staten Island Ferry's Whitehall Terminal, on landfill beyond the site of Peter Stuyvesant's 17th-century house. Whitehall Street is one of New York's oldest streets, having been a 17th-century road in the Dutch colony of New Amsterdam. It was known as ...
The South Ferry/Whitehall Street station is a New York City Subway station complex in the Financial District neighborhood of Manhattan, under Battery Park.The complex is shared by the IRT Broadway–Seventh Avenue Line and the BMT Broadway Line.
The St. George–Whitehall ferry route continued to operate after the Verrazzano-Narrows Bridge opened in 1964, as the bridge's opening was expected to spur an influx of residents to Staten Island. [55] By 1967, the St. George–Whitehall route was the sole remaining ferry route in New York City. [56]
The "New Ferry" (also called the Catherine Ferry) crossed on a more northerly route than the Old Ferry, between Catherine Street in Manhattan, and Main Street in Brooklyn. As the City of Brooklyn grew, the area south of Atlantic Avenue, known as South Brooklyn , began to become developed, but the area lacked easy access to the ferry terminals ...
The Whitehall Building is a three-section residential and office building next to Battery Park in Lower Manhattan, New York City, near the southern tip of Manhattan Island. . The original 20-story structure on Battery Place, between West Street and Washington Street, was designed by Henry Janeway Hardenbergh, while the 31-story Whitehall Building Annex on West Street was designed by Clinton ...
The W operates weekdays during daytime hours only between Ditmars Boulevard in Astoria, Queens and Whitehall Street in Lower Manhattan, making all stops along the full route; limited rush hour service is extended beyond Whitehall Street to and from 86th Street in Gravesend, Brooklyn, making all stops in Brooklyn. [5]
During the late 17th century, the area was a staging ground for raids between English and French colonies. Whitehall was first called "Skenesborough" in 1759 when it was settled by a land grant to a British officer, Philip Skene (1725 - after 1785), who later returned to Britain, and who was subsequently declared an enemy of the State of New York for his land dealings.
South Ferry/Whitehall Street: South Ferry: IRT Broadway–Seventh Avenue Line 1 A new passageway opened concurrently with the opening of the new South Ferry station on March 16, 2009. [20] This connects the IRT Broadway–Seventh Avenue Line with the Whitehall Street station on the BMT Broadway Line. Whitehall Street–South Ferry: BMT Broadway ...