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INDUSTRIAL & TERMINAL RAILROADS & RAIL-MARINE OPERATIONS
OF BROOKLYN, QUEENS, STATEN ISLAND, BRONX & MANHATTAN:

Less Than Carload Car Load LCL Pier Dock Station Ferry Pocket Terminal Carfloat Lighterage Break Bulk New York Central Hudson River West Shore Buffalo Lake Erie Western Delaware Lackawanna Ontario Vermont
Pennsylvania Shipping Steamship SS Albany Susquehanna Coastwise Barclay Communipaw Cortlandt Pavonia Christopher Street

FREIGHT TERMINAL MAPS
FOR
RAILROADS IN NEW YORK CITY
(and the Hudson River shore of New Jersey

Brooklyn, Bronx, Manhattan, Queens, Staten Island, Weehawken, Hoboken and Jersey City

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MAIN INDEX

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Introduction

• Part 1 - General Data
  (information about the port, dredging, channels, waterways, and lay of the land)
  
  
• Part 2 - Data on Piers, Wharves & Docks
  (a lengthy compendium of the owners and tenants of each and every pier, head house and float or transfer bridge; with construction date, dimensions, type of construction of the building or structure, length of driveways, hydrant / water supply, length of railroad sidings, et al)
  
  
• Part 3 - contains the map plates: The Index Plate is 37 x 37 and folded into ninths, and the individual plates are 14" x 37" that are quad folded, and inserted into map pockets bound in a book binder. 

• 1924: seven plates (16 - Linoleumville, 18 - Howland Hook, Staten Island; 33 - Midtown West, Manhattan; #? - Mill Basin (cut off) and 47 - Greenpoint, 50 - Williamsburgh,  Brooklyn; 45 - Astoria, Queens)
• 1932: incomplete: have Plates 1 through 46; (however Brooklyn 47-56 are missing)
• 1942: complete set
• 1955: complete set 
• 1963: seven plates (1 - Battery Park, 2 - Downtown West Side, 3 - Midtown West Side, 4- West 60th Street, Manhattan; 18 - Wards Island, 19 - Oak Point, 32 - Harlem River, the Bronx
• 1978: none

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1903 - New York Central & Hudson River Railroad
(J. N. Matthews)

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1908 - Proposed Cartage Belt Line for Manhattan
(William J. Wilgus)

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1921 - Freight Map of the Metropolitan District
(Empire Map Co)

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1940 - Pennsylvania Railroad
(Port of New York Authority)

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1943 - New York Harbor Terminals
(Port of New York Authority)

   The map below will provide you with a guide as to the locations of the pier stations and freight stations mentioned on this page.

   Please keep in mind that this map is from 1943, and some pier stations may have been relinquished or may not have opened yet. Only the piers marked in red were railroad operated, but remember: carfloats and lighters could be spotted at any pier for a customer.

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Notes:

* = incomplete atlas in NYPL archives (volumes missing)
¹ = correlates to 1942 ACoE Port & Terminal Facilites, Part 2
² = inbound only
³ = MTCo = Manhattan Terminal Co.: Joint Company for B&O, LV, Erie, CNJ

When a street is listed as 26.5, this denotes the pier is located mid-block between two streets, and not physically at the foot of a street.
BH = unnumbered Bulkhead House or Freight Shed, not a pier;   

B&O = Baltimore & Ohio;    CNJ = Central RR of New Jersey;    CR = ConRail;    CS = Chessie System;    CV = Central Vermont;    DL&W = Delaware, Lackawanna & Western;    Erie = Erie;   EL = Erie Lackawanna;    
LV = Lehigh Valley;    NJS = New Jersey Southern;    NYLE&W = New York, Lake Erie & Western;    NYO&W = New York, Ontario & Western;    NYC = New York Central;    NYC&HR = New York Central & Hudson River;    
NYWS&B = New York West Shore & Buffalo;    PRR = Pennsylvania;    WS= West Shore

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