Battery Maritime Building

Category: Cruise & Ferry Terminals

Built: 1909
Architect: Walker and Morris
Designation: NYC Landmark

Description: Beaux-Arts terminal originally accommodated ferry service to 39th Street in Brooklyn. Slips 6 and 7 ferry visitors to and from Governors Island and Slip 5 is planned for East River commuter service. The facade underwent a $60 million restoration. Plans for the building include a specialty foods marketplace in the building's Great Hall, and a new addition on the west side to house a 135-room boutique hotel and indoor/outdoor roof-top restaurant.