https://www.cityofsmoke.com New York in History and Anecdote Sat, 26 Dec 2015 02:29:26 +0000 en-US hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=6.5.2 https://www.cityofsmoke.com/archives/595 https://www.cityofsmoke.com/archives/595#respond Tue, 24 Mar 2015 22:18:22 +0000 http://www.cityofsmoke.com/?p=595 Foggy or clear, twenty-four hours a day the ferries toot their diesel horns once as they depart the ferry slips at St. George on their five-mile voyage for Whitehall. The old names remain. Ferrymen are traditionalists. Sailing ferries were traveling the Upper Bay before the War of 1812, long before the five-borough City of New York was even a dream. Hence Whitehall and St. George, rather than Manhattan and Staten Island. ]]> https://www.cityofsmoke.com/archives/595/feed 0