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 | | Manhattan, Manna-hata, the Algonquins "island of hills," 40 degrees north latitude, 76 degrees west longitude, is 12 miles long and 2 miles wide at its broadest point. |
 | | Vince Sweeney, a Staten Island historian, defines a ferry as a function rather than a boat: transportation regularly crossing some body of navigable water for the conveyance of persons, vehicles and animals. |
 | | In 1810, Cornelius Vanderbilt, a handsome, profane Staten Islander, borrowed $100 from his mother to run a ferry from Stapleton, another east shore town, to the foot of Whitehall St. Seven years later, he launched the first steam ferry in New York, the Nautilus, and charged an extortionate 25-cent farechildren half price. |
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