Route: Tip of Lower Manhattan, Whitehall Street to St. George, Staten Island - five miles Operates: 24 hours a day; Passage: 22 minutes Frequency: Every hour late at night and on weekend mornings; every half hour at all other times except during weekday morning and afternoon rush hours when frequency increases to every fifteen minutes.

Both the Whitehall Street Terminal in Manhattan and the St. George Terminal on Staten Island have been completely rebuilt and now feature through-glass-wall-views of the harbor and ferryboats arriving and leaving. The plaza in front of the Manhattan terminal and the South Ferry subway station used by the #1 Train are still under reconstruction.

Type of ferries: Three classes of double-ended passenger-vehicle and passenger-only ferries--- Molinari Class (3) – Guy V. Molinari, Sen. John J. Marchi, Spirit of America – all built 2004/5 and entered service 2005. 310 feet long. 4,400 passengers and 30 vehicles (none carried at present).
Barberi Class (2) - Andrew J. Barberi (1981), Samuel I. Newhouse (1982). 310 feet long. 6000 passengers and no vehicles.
Noble Class (2) - John A. Noble, Alice Austen. - both built 1986. 207 feet long. 1,300 passengers and no vehicles.
N.B. The Kennedy Class has been phased out, though the John F. Kennedy remains a training and an emergency spare boat. Kennedy Class (3) - John F. Kennedy, American Legion, The Gov. Herbert H. Lehman - all built 1965. 297 feet long. 3500 passengers and 40 vehicles.