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r site for recreation sailing and kayaking citation needed the harbor is traversed by the staten island ferry which runs between whitehall street at the southernmost tip of manhattan near battery park south ferry and st george ferry terminal on richmond terrace in staten island near richmond county borough hall and richmond county supreme court ny waterway operates routes across the bay and through the narrows to locations near sandy hook 10 the harbor supports a very diverse population of marine species allowing for recreational fishing most commonly for striped bass and bluefish 11 history edit colonial era edit new amsterdam 1660 early east river docks along left bottom protective wall against the british on right west is at top castello plan redraft the original population of the 16th century new york harbor the lenape used the waterways for fishing and travel in 1524 giovanni da verrazzano anchored in what is now called the narrows the strait between staten island and long island that connects the upper and lower new york bay where he received a canoe party of lenape a party of his sailors may have taken on fresh water at a spring called the watering place on staten island a monument stands in a tiny park on the corner of bay street and victory boulevard at the approximate spot but verrazzano s descriptions of the geography of the area are a bit ambiguous it is fairly firmly held by historians that his ship anchored at the approximate location of the modern verrazzano narrows bridge s approach viaduct in brooklyn he also observed what he believed to be a large freshwater lake to the north apparently upper new york bay he apparently did not travel north to observe the existence of the hudson river in 1609 henry hudson entered the harbor and explored a stretch of the river that now bears his name his journey prompted others to explore the region and engage in trade with the local population the first permanent european settlement was started on governors island in 1624 and in brooklyn eight years after that soon these were connected by ferry operation 12 peter stuyvesant the dutch colonial director general of new netherland ordered construction of the first wharf on the manhattan bank of the lower east river sheltered from winds and ice which was completed late in 1648 and called schreyers hook dock near what is now pearl and broad streets this prepared new york as a leading port for the british colonies and then within the newly independent united states 13 in 1686 the british colonial officials gave the municipality control over the waterfront 19th century edit new york harbor seen from the brooklyn bridge in 1893 in 1835 lieutenant thomas gedney of the survey of the coast renamed the united states coast survey in 1836 and the united states coast and geodetic survey in 1878 discovered a new deeper channel through the narrows into new york harbor previously the passage was complex and shallow enough that loaded ships would wait outside the harbor until high tide to avoid running into the huge sandbar which was interrupted in a number of places by channels of fairly shallow depth 21 feet 6 4 m at low tide and 33 feet 10 m at high tide because of the difficulty of the navigation required since 1694 new york had required all ships to be guided into the harbor by an experienced pilot the new channel gedney discovered was 2 feet 0 61 m deeper enough of an added margin that fully laden ships could come into the harbor even at slack tide gedney s channel as it came to be called was also shorter than the previous channel another benefit appreciated by the ship owners and the merchants they sold to gedney received the praise of the city as well as an expensive silver service 14 in her 1832 book domestic manners of the americans fanny trollope wrote of her impressions upon entering new york harbor for the first time i have never seen the bay of naples i can therefore make no comparison but my imagination is incapable of conceiving any thing of the kind more beautiful than the harbour of new york various and lovely are the objects which meet the eye on every side but the naming them would only be to give a list of words without conveying the faintest idea of the scene i doubt if ever the pencil of turner could do it justice bright and glorious as it rose upon us we seemed to enter the harbour of new york upon waves of liquid gold and as we darted past the green isles which rise from its bosom like guardian centinels of the fair city the setting sun stretched his horizontal beams farther and farther at each moment as if to point out to us some new glory in the landscape 15 in 1824 the first american drydock was completed on the east river because of its location and depth the port grew rapidly with the introduction of steamships and then with the completion in 1825 of the erie canal new york became the most important transshipping port between europe and the interior of the united states as well as coastwise 16 destinations by about 1840 more passengers and a greater tonnage of cargo came through the port of new york than all other major harbors in the country combined and by 1900 it was one of the great international ports 17 the morris canal carried anthracite and freight from pennsylvania through new jersey to its terminus at the mouth of the hudson in jersey city portions in the harbor are now part of liberty state park in 1870 the city established the department of docks to systematize waterfront development with george b mcclellan as the first engineer in chief by the turn of the 20th century numerous railroad terminals lined the western banks of the north river hudson river in hudson county new jersey transporting passengers and freight from all over the united states the freight was ferried across by the competing railroads with small fleets of towboats barges and 323 car floats specially designed barges with rails so cars could be rolled on 18 new york subsidized this service which undercut rival ports 19 major road improvements allowing for trucking and containerization diminished the need the harbor saw major federal investment at the end of the century when congress passed the rivers and harbors act of 1899 over 1 2 million of initial funding was appropriated for the dredging of 40 foot deep 12 2 m channels at bay ridge red hook and sandy hook 20 the statue of liberty liberty enlightening the world stands on liberty island in the harbor while the nearby main port of entry at ellis island processed 12 million arrivals from 1892 to 1954 the statue of liberty national monument encompassing both islands recalls the period of massive immigration to the united states at the turn of the 20th century 21 while many stayed in the region others spread across america with more than 10 million leaving from the nearby central railroad of new jersey terminal 22 20th century edit post world war i edit after the war the 1919 new york city harbor strike by the marine workers union shut down the port for weeks 23 24 25 it started on january 9 and was paused on january 13 for arbitration the strike resumed march 4 after workers rejected the war board labor ruling and ended on april 20 1919 after new terms had been offered by both public and private port employers 23 24 25 a u s sailor s album snapshot of a railroad car float in ny harbor in 1919 world war i victory fleet of battleships in new york harbor in april 1919 world war ii edit convoy out of brooklyn in february 1942 bound for liverpool photographed from a blimp from nas lakehurst after the united states entered world war ii the german navy s operation drumbeat set the top u boat aces loose against the merchant fleet in u s territorial waters in january 1942 starting the second happy time the u boat captains were able to silhouette target ships against the glow of city lights and attacked with relative impunity in spite of u s naval concentrations within the harbor casualties included the tankers coimbria off sandy hook and norness off long island new york harbor as the major convoy embarkation point for the u s was effectively a staging area in the battle of the atlantic with the u s merchant marine losses of 1 of 26 mariners a rate exceeding those of the other u s forces 26 bright city lights made it easier for german u boats to spot targets at night but local officials resisted suggestions that they follow london s lead and blackout the lights of coastal cities however some lights were darkened including those of the amusement parks in coney island brooklyn and the coney island light and sandy hook lighthouse the harbor reached its peak activity in march 1943 during world war ii with 543 ships at anchor awaiting assignment to convoy or berthing with as many as 426 seagoing vessel already at one of the 750 piers or docks eleven hundred warehouses with nearly 1 5 square miles 3 9 km 2 of enclosed space served freight along with 575 tugboats and 39 active shipyards the largest being brooklyn navy yard with a large inventory of heavy equipment this made new york harbor the busiest in the world 27 post world war ii edit deterrence and investigation of criminal activity especially relating to organized crime is the responsibility of the bi state waterfront commission 28 the commission was set up in 1953 a year before the movie on the waterfront to combat labor racketeering it is held that the gambino crime family controlled the new york waterfront and the genovese crime family controlled the new jersey side 29 in 1984 the teamsters local was put under racketeer influenced and corrupt organizations act rico trusteeship and in 2005 a similar suit was brought against the international longshoremen s association local 30 in march 2006 the port passenger facility was to be transferred to dubai ports world there was considerable security controversy over the ownership by a foreign corporation particularly arabic of a u s port operation this in spite of the fact the current operator was the british based p o ports 31 and the fact that orient overseas investment limited a company dominated by a chinese communist official has the operating contract for howland hook marine terminal 32 an additional concern is the u s customs green lane program in which trusted shippers have fewer containers inspected providing easier access for contraband material 33 water quality edit the water quality in new york harbor has been affected by centuries of shipping activity industrial development and urbanization water pollution from these sources has been a constant phenomenon although there have been improvements in some areas of the harbor complex in the late 20th and early 21st centuries a 2019 study of the harbor identifies water quality trends in nine regions of the harbor using data collected during 1996 to 2017 the lower new york bay region has the highest quality due to frequent exchange of water with the atlantic ocean the poorest regions are those with limited exchange of water flows newtown creek flushing bay and jamaica bay high levels of nutrient pollution nitrogen and phosphorus were observed throughout the various harbor regions although there has been a general lowering trend in total nitrogen and some other indicator parameters show improvements the implementation of the clean water act and related pollution control laws along with cleanup programs and conservation measures throughout the region have begun to yield some improvements since the 1970s the study authors state that the new york harbor ecosystem is much healthier than it was 30 years ago 34 container shipping and air travel edit main article port of new york and new jersey port newark seen in the foreground from across newark bay the port of new york and new jersey is the largest oil importing port and third largest container port in the nation 35 the commercial activity of the port of new york city including the waterfronts of the five boroughs and nearby cities in new jersey since 1921 has been formalized under a single bi state port authority of new york and new jersey 36 since the 1950s the new york and brooklyn commercial port has been almost completely eclipsed by the container ship facility at nearby port newark elizabeth marine terminal in newark bay which is the largest such port on the eastern seaboard the port has diminished in importance to passenger travel but the port authority operates all three major airports la guardia built 1939 and jfk idlewild built 1948 in new york and newark built 1928 in new jersey 37 ferries and cruise ships edit the harbor is still served by cruise lines commuter ferries and tourist excursion boats although most ferry service is private the staten island ferry is operated by the new york city department of transportation passenger ship facilities are new york passenger ship terminal the brooklyn cruise terminal at red hook and motby at bayonne gallery edit manhattan across the bay from liberty state park robbins reef light motby and port jersey liberty weekend 1986 ellis island the statue of liberty edward moran new york harbor 1880 edward moran new york harbor liberty island with ellis island downtown jersey city left and manhattan right in background see also edit transport portal new york state portal new york city portal new jersey portal brooklyn army terminal commissioner of docks and ferries of the city of new york geography of new york new jersey harbor estuary history of new york city transportation marine life of new york new jersey harbor estuary military ocean terminal at bayonne new york harbor storm surge barrier references edit walsh kevin j october 25 2011 the port of new york and new jersey a critical hub of global commerce forbes retrieved february 26 2013 1 2 replacement of anchorage channel water siphons new york city economic development commission february 13 2013 archived from the original on july 29 2019 retrieved march 15 2012 cross harbor freight program 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