We’re approaching the 200th anniversary of the beginning of steam powered ferry service between Brooklyn and Manhattan. Karl Junkersfeld has made a video (see it after the jump) marking the occasion, and giving the history of ferry service, and of the Brooklyn neighborhood (now the Fulton Ferry Historic District and, to its north, DUMBO) that […]
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Karl’s Video History of Brooklyn Ferry
By Claude Scales on April 30, 2014 10:08 pm in Brooklyn History, DUMBO, Fulton Ferry Historic District, Maritime
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