The Hudson River ferries, particularly the Staten Island Ferry, was a crucial transportation system in getting people from other boroughs to the mainland of Manhattan, usually docking near Battery Park. The ferry is free, and is the subject of many poems, including ones by Walt Whitman and Edna St. Vincent Millay
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Walt Whitman
Background: Date of Birth: May 31, 1819 Whitman lived in Brooklyn and Long Island between the 1820’s and 1830’s with his family of three. He started out as a printer at age 12, and fell in love with the written word. He was self-taught and learned through reading. When a fire in the printing district …