Traveling the City By Water: Your Guide to NYC Boats and Ferries

Traveling the City By Water: Your Guide to NYC Boats and Ferries

This story is part of Summer & THE CITY, our weekly newsletter made to help you enjoy — and survive — the hottest time in the five boroughs. Sign up here.Our city is a collection of islands, and New Yorkers have been using ferries to traverse its waterways for centuries. The first ferryman in the records, according to an 1853 history of New York, was Cornelius Dircksen, who ran a ferry from Peck Slip in Manhattan to Fulton Ferry in what is now D…