Pier 16
Financial District | built 1900
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- 1924
Pier 16 is the Manhattan landing for the Fulton Ferry until service ends in 1924
A regular Fulton Ferry service crossed the East River between Pier 16 and the Fulton Ferry landing in Brooklyn until 1924. Pier 16 was the Manhattan landing for that crossing.
“A regular ferry service, the Fulton Ferry, ran between Pier 16 and the Fulton Ferry pier in Brooklyn until 1924.”
Source: Wikipedia
- 1975
The four-masted Moshulu leaves Pier 16 for Philadelphia after talks with her owner sour
The 335-foot Moshulu had been docked at Pier 16 for two years when the Seaport lost her. The story goes that talks with a Los Angeles restaurateur, who had lent the ship, turned disastrous and he angrily moved her to Philadelphia, where she is now a floating restaurant. Jack Aron, the coffee and metals trader who bought the Peking, had read of the Seaport's loss.
Source: Untapped New York
- 1975
The four-masted barque Peking arrives at Pier 16 to a fireboat salute and a band
The Peking reached Manhattan on November 22, 1975. The New York Times reported that tugboats, tankers and ferries sounded their horns, a fireboat sprayed water in her honor and about 150 people cheered as a band played. City commissioner Angier Biddle Duke welcomed owner Jack Aron with a medallion from Mayor Abraham Beame.
Source: Untapped New York
- 2016
The Peking is due to leave Pier 16 after four decades, bound for Hamburg
By 2016 the barque had stood at Pier 16 for four decades, and the cash-strapped Seaport Museum had feared she would be scrapped. With Germany's funding secured, she was scheduled to leave on September 6 to winter at a Staten Island dry dock before crossing the Atlantic on a heavy-lift ship to a new museum in Hamburg.
Source: Untapped New York
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