4. Hustle & Bustle New York’s liveliness during the early 20th century stemmed much from the port activity of ferries and trade ships. This is what Early 20th Century immigrants would have likely saw on a daily basis. Video via Browser

5. Posters For Passage to America None of these mention that immigrants would have to be processed or ferried across for quarantine!

14. In Retrospect For the immigrants of old, ferries were a segway to a fierce new world, where every square inch of New York City, even its waterfront, was alive with locomotion. Nowadays, despite the stagnation of the ferries, immigrants young and old acculturated these passages by boat into their in the big city. Pictured: View of New York. 1849 Courtesy ofNew York Public Library Digital Collections