Soissons Dock (ferry slip)

144 Carder Road | also 140 Carder Road | Governors Island | built 1900

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1878
General Hancock's command brings the first Army-run ferry service to Governors Island
After Major General Winfield Scott Hancock moved the Army's Division of the Atlantic headquarters to Governors Island in 1878, the post got its first ferry service run by the Army itself. It replaced private ferries and carried soldiers and their families at no charge. The Army's ferry between the island and Manhattan has since been a permanent fixture, and the current slips at this landing date from 1947.
Source: NYC Landmarks Preservation Commission
1947
The present ferry piers linking Governors Island with the Battery Maritime Building date from 1947
Two timber piers at the island's landing, each with a steel gantry at its land end, were put up in 1947. They serve the ferries that connect Governors Island to the Battery Maritime Building in Lower Manhattan. The landing itself has been called Soissons Dock since the First World War.
“Structures 142 and 144 are the two ferry piers and related structures which accommodate the ferries between Governors Island and the Battery Maritime Building…”
Source: NYC Landmarks Preservation Commission

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