Battery Maritime Building

rdf:langString Battery Maritime Building

rdf:langString Municipal Ferry Pier

rdf:langString Municipal Ferry Pier

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rdf:langString Walker & Morris; Frederick Snare

rdf:langString Beaux Arts

rdf:langString less than one acre

rdf:langString Entry bay, north elevation

rdf:langString Ironwork and window panels on balcony

rdf:langString Railing between column on balcony

rdf:langString Depiction of the incomplete terminal from the East River

rdf:langString Land-facing elevation of the Municipal Ferry Terminal; the center section was never completed

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rdf:langString New York City Landmarks Preservation Commission

rdf:langString NYC Landmark

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rdf:langString Ironwork and window panels on balcony. - Whitehall Street Ferry Terminal, 11 South Street, New York, New York County, NY HAER NY,31-NEYO,146-7.tif

rdf:langString Entry bay, north elevation. - Whitehall Street Ferry Terminal, 11 South Street, New York, New York County, NY HAER NY,31-NEYO,146-3.tif

rdf:langString Land Front Elevation Municipal Ferry Terminal.jpg

rdf:langString River View Municipal Ferry Terminal.jpg

rdf:langString Railing between column on balcony. - Whitehall Street Ferry Terminal, 11 South Street, New York, New York County, NY HAER NY,31-NEYO,146-6.tif

rdf:langString Whitehall Street Ferry Terminal, 11 South Street, New York, New York County, NY

rdf:langString The Battery Maritime Building is a building at South Ferry on the southern tip of Manhattan Island in New York City. Located at 10 South Street, near the intersection with Whitehall Street, it contains an operational ferry terminal at ground level, as well as a hotel and event space on the upper stories. The ground story contains three ferry slips that are used for excursion trips and ferries to Governors Island, as well as commuter trips to Port Liberté, Jersey City. The upper stories contain the Cipriani South Street event space, operated by Cipriani S.A., and a 47-room hotel called Casa Cipriani. The Beaux-Arts building was built from 1906 to 1909 and designed by the firm Walker and Morris as the easternmost section of the partially completed Whitehall Street Ferry Terminal. What is now the Battery Maritime Building was designed to serve ferries traveling to Brooklyn. The structure uses a variety of architectural metals and originally contained a large waiting area on the second floor. The Battery Maritime Building is the only Exposition Universelle-style ferry building still operating in Manhattan. The similarly-designed westernmost section of the Whitehall Street Ferry Terminal, serving ferries to Staten Island, was rebuilt as the Staten Island Ferry Whitehall Terminal; the center section was never built. The terminal was used by Brooklyn ferry routes until the mid-20th century and subsequently fell into disrepair. The building was used as a Governors Island ferry terminal starting in 1956, while the upper floors were used by various city agencies, including the Department of Marine and Aviation beginning in 1959. The New York City Landmarks Preservation Commission designated the building as a city landmark in 1967 and it was added to the National Register of Historic Places in 1976. The underused structure was proposed to be converted into a cultural center during the 1980s as part of the failed South Ferry Plaza development. The exterior was restored by Jan Hird Pokorny Architects between 2001 and 2005. Plans to convert the interior into a hotel and event space were approved in 2009, but the conversion encountered numerous delays, with the event space opening in 2019.