{"id":411,"date":"2009-03-17T09:55:09","date_gmt":"2009-03-17T13:55:09","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.railfanwindow.com\/blog\/?p=411"},"modified":"2009-03-17T09:55:09","modified_gmt":"2009-03-17T13:55:09","slug":"first-photos-new-south-ferry-terminal-grand-opening","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.railfanwindow.com\/blog\/2009\/03\/first-photos-new-south-ferry-terminal-grand-opening\/","title":{"rendered":"First Photos of the New South Ferry Terminal Grand Opening"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Yesterday at noon I rode the first <span style=\"color: #ff0000;\">(1)<\/span> train into the new South Ferry subway terminal, and then ran across the platform to ride the first <span style=\"color: #ff0000;\">(1)<\/span> train out of the new South Ferry subway terminal (I guess you can say I couldn&#8217;t wait to get out of there). Many of you know my views on the new station, so I won&#8217;t get into that right now.<\/p>\n<p>There were many photographers present at the grand opening, so instead of showing you photos you&#8217;ve already seen, I&#8217;m going to highlight what I feel are some unique photos that I took. And these are only from the first batch of yesterday&#8217;s photos &#8211; I have more to come.<\/p>\n<p>Click on each thumbnail to view the full-size photo.<\/p>\n<div style=\"width: 445px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.railfanwindow.com\/gallery2\/v\/NYC-photos\/NYC-Subway\/Stations\/South-Ferry-New-Stub-Terminal\/DSC_3853fb.jpg.html\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/www.railfanwindow.com\/gallery2\/d\/147122-1\/DSC_3853fb.jpg\" alt=\"Riders stepping off the first train to the new South Ferry\" width=\"435\" \/><\/a><p class=\"wp-caption-text\">Riders stepping off the first train to the new South Ferry<\/p><\/div>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\">\n<div style=\"width: 445px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.railfanwindow.com\/gallery2\/v\/NYC-photos\/NYC-Subway\/Stations\/South-Ferry-New-Stub-Terminal\/DSC_3871a.jpg.html\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/www.railfanwindow.com\/gallery2\/d\/147090-1\/DSC_3871a.jpg\" alt=\"Riders about to enter the new South Ferry subway terminal\" width=\"435\" \/><\/a><p class=\"wp-caption-text\">Riders about to enter the new South Ferry subway terminal<\/p><\/div>\n<p style=\"text-align: left;\">\n<div style=\"width: 445px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.railfanwindow.com\/gallery2\/v\/NYC-photos\/NYC-Subway\/Stations\/South-Ferry-New-Stub-Terminal\/DSC_3895bw.jpg.html\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/www.railfanwindow.com\/gallery2\/d\/147104-1\/DSC_3895bw.jpg\" alt=\"South Ferry subway - main entrance awning\" width=\"435\" \/><\/a><p class=\"wp-caption-text\">South Ferry subway - main entrance awning<\/p><\/div>\n<p>Ok, let me take one potshot here at the new station: the best view of the new South Ferry subway terminal is the one looking back as you&#8217;re <em>getting the heck out of there<\/em>&#8230;<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: left;\">\n<div style=\"width: 445px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.railfanwindow.com\/gallery2\/v\/NYC-photos\/NYC-Subway\/Stations\/South-Ferry-New-Stub-Terminal\/DSC_3854a.jpg.html\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/www.railfanwindow.com\/gallery2\/d\/147124-1\/DSC_3854a.jpg\" alt=\"Through-the-cab view as the first train departs the new station\" width=\"435\" \/><\/a><p class=\"wp-caption-text\">Through-the-cab view as the first train departs the new station<\/p><\/div>\n<p>To see the rest of the first photos, and to watch for more in the upcoming days, go to this album: <a href=\"http:\/\/www.railfanwindow.com\/gallery2\/v\/NYC-photos\/NYC-Subway\/Stations\/South-Ferry-New-Stub-Terminal\/\">New South Ferry Stub-End Terminal<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Yesterday at noon I rode the first (1) train into the new South Ferry subway terminal, and then ran across the platform to ride the first (1) train out of the new South Ferry subway terminal (I guess you can &hellip; <a href=\"http:\/\/www.railfanwindow.com\/blog\/2009\/03\/first-photos-new-south-ferry-terminal-grand-opening\/\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[56,28,1],"tags":[208,207,67,185,50,13,77,395],"class_list":["post-411","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-railfanning","category-subway","category-uncategorized","tag-first-train","tag-grand-opening","tag-new-york-city","tag-new-york-city-transit","tag-nyc","tag-nyct","tag-south-ferry","tag-subway"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.railfanwindow.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/411","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.railfanwindow.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.railfanwindow.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.railfanwindow.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.railfanwindow.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=411"}],"version-history":[{"count":10,"href":"http:\/\/www.railfanwindow.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/411\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":421,"href":"http:\/\/www.railfanwindow.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/411\/revisions\/421"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.railfanwindow.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=411"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.railfanwindow.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=411"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.railfanwindow.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=411"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}