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Could someone please indicate at the beginning of the article the time required for a trip? Thanks! Psychonaut 19:23, 8 May 2005 (UTC)
In Bob Dylan's song Hard Days in New York, he sings something like "if you've only got a nickel, it's the Staten Island Ferry", which I always took to be the fare at the time. The article says it started at a quarter. Can any historian help me on this? Ringbark 08:16, 10 January 2006 (UTC)
Close -- Actually, under Guiliani, they dropped the fare when they instututed "one fare" zones on mass transit. Which means, in part, if you pay a fare on one form of transit like a bus, you don't have to pay to transfer to another form such as a subway. The vast majority of people taking the ferry are transferring from or to a bus or subway, so to institute the one fare policy, they would in effect be collecting no fare from most of the users. They decided it would be too expensive to collect from the tourists and a few SI'ers who only take the ferry. EGregory 14:11, 14 April 2006 (UTC)
The Northfield disaster is mentioned in this artice, but there's no mention of the 19th century Westfield inicident, which was the worst Staten Island Ferry disaster in history. I believe the death toll was around 165 with hundreds scalded when the boiler of this steam ferry exploded. EGregory 17:20, 28 October 2005 (UTC)
Nice write-up. Thanks, EGregory 16:55, 20 January 2006 (UTC)
The words "...though he escaped conviction" are loaded, as if you mean to suggest that Vanderbilt was actually guilty. If that's the intent, the posting should be clarified. If it's not the intent, I would change to something like "...but was eventually acquitted." 160.254.20.253 (talk) 17:37, 8 October 2008 (UTC)
I recently updated the section of classes of ferries now that all three Molinari-class vessels are in operation. I also merged a later paragraph, which was outdates and in future tense into the ferry descriptions. The following line "The Marine Group also will build two similar-sized boats." was part of that graph. I am not familiar with this info, but since I don't know that it's innacurate, I did not delete. If anyone can verify, please do. (By the way, does anyone else fing the phrase "Molinari Class" to be an oxymoron?) EGregory 15:09, 10 April 2006 (UTC)
Is there a scene in Funny Girl on the Staten Island Ferry, or does Barbara Streisand's character just appear on a tug boat in the harbor? If so, it should be added. Digit LeBoid 18:52, 21 December 2006 (UTC)
In the movie, the Fannie Brice character played by Ms Streisand was trying to catch the cruise ship Nicky Arnstein was on, so she would have been at one of the west side ship docks, not the South Ferry terminal. When she realizes she's missed the boat (to coin a phrase), she gets a tug boat to carry her out to the ship. The Staten Island Ferry was not involved.160.254.20.253 (talk) 17:43, 8 October 2008 (UTC)
I'd like to propose four additions to this page:
1) "The ferry in music" would be great, either as a subsection, or just merging it with the film and television section. Someone mentioned the Dylan reference. Billy Joel also makes a reference in his song "Everybody Loves You Now", iirc. I'm sure there are others.
2) A table of history by the vessel would be a great addition, I think, with an eye toward eliminating redundancy. I'd like to simply show every ferry vessel known about, year built, commissioned and decommissioned (if any), and eventual fate. References to incidents or other bits of notes as internal links would also be nice.
3) I'd like to add the Manhattan terminal fire of the mid 90s to the incidents list. It was really a sad loss of a lot of architectural history, and i believe it noteworthy.
4) Finally, the ferry plays a special role in the lives of middle- and high-school students that commute between the Island the Manhattan. I'd like to start a section to seed additions in this area, such as historical "sections" where students would meet, and similar. If no one adds to it, we can always let it atrophy and delete it.
Thoughts, anyone? I'm very open to feedback.
An Earthshine 03:33, 6 January 2007 (UTC)
this was a significant incident and should deserve a bit more info as to what happened, the players involved, what happened afterwards (lawsuits, policy changes like people not allowed too close on the forward deck, the asst capt tryign to commit suicide), etc. Lucky dog (talk) 16:01, 3 July 2009 (UTC)
The article says there are nine ferries in 4 classes. However, the ferries listed as currently operated are the John F. Kennedy, the Andrew J. Barberi, the Samuel I. Newhouse, the Alice Austen, the John A. Noble, the Guy Molinari, the John J. Marchi and the Spirit of America. That is eight, not nine. Can someone please clarify?Avman89 (talk) 07:40, 6 July 2009 (UTC)
The main image on the article page (in the info box on right) is way too big - some 250x210 pixels!
Can someone please correct this.
Thanks.
--Raghuveer 03:32, 30 July 2011 (UTC) — Preceding unsigned comment added by Raghuveer.v (talk • contribs)
The article says that "The Staten Island Ferry is the most reliable form of mass transit". Among what is it the most reliable? Among all public transportation modes in the city? Please correct. I don't know what this is supposed to mean. Level Crossing (talk) 21:00, 25 September 2011 (UTC)
Edited this out for now. Level Crossing (talk) 00:27, 29 September 2011 (UTC)
This is a one-line stub, about a hoax no less. It would be more visible if posted on the Staten Island Ferry page. epicgenius (talk) 03:22, 27 July 2017 (UTC)
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