Battery Maritime Building

The Battery Maritime Building at South and Whitehall (Municipal Ferry Terminal) serves ferries leaving for Governors Island. It was built from 1906 to 1909 and recently enjoyed a multimillion $$ restoration. There was also ferry service to Brooklyn from here until 1938.

The Battery Maritime Building is a ferry terminal at 11 South Street at the corner of South and Whitehall Streets near South Ferry at the tip of Manhattan Island in New York City. It is used for excursion trips and, since 1956, as the ferry terminal to Governors Island.[2] The Beaux-Arts building was built from 1906 to 1909 as the Municipal Ferry Pier.[3] It was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1976.

Photo 60s, May 2008