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In the Driftway
February 6, 1924 issue

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Fulton ferry has stopped running. That ferry has made history and poetry. It was a very Methuselah among American ferries, as early as 1642 boats ran regularly from what is now Peck's Slip, Manhattan, to what is now Fulton Street, Brooklyn. That was a year before the settlement of Breuckelen itself, and the colony about the ferry terminus was known simply as The Ferry. In its day Fulton Ferry was a fashionable passage, and before the fire of 1848 lower Fulton Street, Brooklyn, was lined with dignified buildings and shaded by fine old elm-trees, which made Talleyrand's exile in America a joy.

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FERRIES; PASSENGER ships; RIVER boats; TRANSPORTATION; BROOKLYN (New York, N.Y.); NEW York (N.Y.); NEW York (State); UNITED States
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