3-077-830 - The Print Collector/Heritage Images

America revisited by our Special Artist: Fulton Ferry, New York, 1890. 'The city of Brooklyn, with more than half a million of inhabitants, is divided from New York city by a marine strait, a genuine arm of the sea, which the New Yorkers choose inadequately to style "the East River." Their West River, of course, is the Hudson; and their North River should be the navigable creek, eight miles long, called the Harlem River, which cuts off the isle of Manhattan or New York from the mainland. Brooklyn is a fine town, occupying high ground which commands a noble view of the harbour of New York;...it possesses a stately City Hall, built of marble, with a lofty dome, at the head of Fulton-street...The waterside is occupied by docks, shipbuilding yards, warehouses, and factories; the United States Navy Yard and Marine Barracks are situated here...The East River is now crossed by the Brooklyn Suspension Bridge, a great engineering work. The South and Fulton-steam-ferries, however, continue in operation: they are connected with lines of tram-cars running from Broadway, in New York, and to Fulton- street and other parts of Brooklyn. Passengers on board one of these ferry-boats afford the subject of our Artist's Sketches'. From "Illustrated London News", 1890.