Ferries from Brookfield Place Terminal

The ferry lands you in a marble atrium. Brookfield Place is an office and retail complex on the Hudson waterfront in Lower Manhattan, and its ferry terminal is effectively part of the building — which is why the busiest crossing here is seven minutes long and runs ninety times a day in each direction.

The seven-minute route that dominates everything

Paulus Hook in Jersey City runs 90 sailings in each direction in our timetable — the densest single pair in the New York harbour network. The crossing takes about 7 minutes.

Hoboken / NJ Transit adds 68 out and 66 back at around ten minutes. Between them those two routes account for most of the traffic through this terminal.

⚠ Two operators again, and the split is not obvious

As at Pier 11, two networks use this waterfront. NY Waterway runs the New Jersey commuter routes; NYC Ferry runs services to St. George on Staten Island and up the west side to Midtown, each with about 40 sailings.

The fares are unrelated and there is no through-ticketing. On a pier where both boats look similar and load minutes apart, that is worth checking before boarding rather than after.

The rest of the network

From here you can also reach Port Imperial, Hoboken 14th Street, Midtown / W. 39th St. and South Amboy — nineteen routes in total, 533 sailings.

The long ones run at peak hours only. South Amboy at roughly 50 minutes is a commuter service in the literal sense: it exists for people going to work and disappears outside those windows.

Where you actually are

Brookfield Place sits beside the World Trade Center site, with the Winter Garden atrium between the terminal and the street. Battery Park City is immediately south, the PATH and several subway lines are a short walk east.

For a foot passenger this is the most sheltered arrival in the harbour — you get off a boat and are indoors, which on a February morning is not a trivial advantage over the open piers.

Timing

The pattern is sharply commuter-shaped: dense from seven to ten in the morning and four to seven in the evening, thinner in between, minimal at weekends on the New Jersey routes. The NYC Ferry services run more evenly across the day.