Wireless internet service has come to Brooklyn Bridge Park. Now you make the Park your waterfront-view office. Bring your laptop, kick back and log-on.
In 1642, Cornelius Dircksen, a local farmer, started the first ferry between Peck Slip in Manhattan and what is now the corner of Front and Fulton Street. Passengers would call Dircksen out of his fields with a horn to ferry them across the river.
