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"Yonkers Alpine Ferry"
Along the Palisades, the Kearney House had a little fleet of blue rowboats would row you across for a fee, or you could row yourself. Later, in 1868, “The Yonkers and Alpine Ferry Company” was incorporated by some of the same men who were building big houses on the cliff top and contriving to change the name on the map from “Closter Landing” to Alpine.
In May 1894 the Times noted that from Yonkers “[a] ferry runs to Alpine, on the west side of the Hudson, whence the top of the Palisades is easily reached. An extensive view is there to be had over Westchester County to Long Island Sound…” In August that same year, the Times reported how the ferry owners were graciously permitting mothers to bring sick children aboard, and to remain in the fresh air as long as they wished.
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