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The Canal Street Ferry, also known as the Algiers Ferry, is a ferry across the Mississippi River in the U.S. state of Louisiana, connecting the foot of Canal Street in the Central Business District of New Orleans with Algiers on the West Bank. [1] It carries pedestrians only for $2.00 one way. This increase in price from (formerly) free took ...
Canal Street Ferry 29°57′05″N 90°03′33″W / 29.95139°N 90.05917°W / 29.95139; -90.05917 ( Canal Street Chalmette–Lower Algiers Ferry
Currently, the agency is responsible for the Crescent City Connection bridges and three ferries: Jackson Avenue-Gretna Ferry, Canal Street Ferry and Chalmette-Lower Algiers Ferry. The Canal Street Ferry was purchased on 1960, followed by the purchase of the Jackson Avenue Ferry in 1965. The CCCD initiated the Chalmette Ferry in 1969.
The Crescent City Connection was the fifth most traveled toll bridge in the United States in 2006, with annual traffic exceeding 63 million vehicles. [10] The bridge is the centerpiece of the Crescent Connection Road Race (CCRR) [11] or Bridge Race as it is locally known, an annual event held on the first Saturday in September following Labor ...
Algiers Point in 1922. Algiers Point is a location on the Lower Mississippi River in New Orleans, Louisiana. In river pilotage, Algiers Point is one of the many points of land around which the river flows—albeit a significant one. Since the 1970s, the name Algiers Point has also referred to the neighborhood in the immediate vicinity of that ...
NEW BRUNSWICK – The Landing Lane Bridge over the Raritan River and Delaware & Raritan Canal will be closed in both directions beginning Monday, Dec. 4, for priority repairs on the city side.
Algiers was home to various jazz pioneers such as Red Allen, Peter Bocage, George Lewis, Papa Celestin, Kid Thomas Valentine and many others. Jazz musicians of the 1920s referred to Algiers as the "Brooklyn of the South", the latter for its proximity to New Orleans as compared to New York and Brooklyn, both separated by a river.
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