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The Hudson River circa 1909. "City of New York municipal ferry Brooklyn, possibly a participant in the Hudson-Fulton celebration." 8x10 inch dry plate glass negative, Detroit Publishing Company. View full size.
The three trapezoidal buildings look to be the ones at the right edge of the pic from Manhattan.
Hudson River or the bay? It looks like the tip of Governors Island on the left, which would be consistent with the normal run of the SI ferry. But what on earth are those three trapezoidal buildings in the background on the left, in what I am assuming is downtown Brooklyn? Or that parachute-jump looking number showing itself between the rear-facing pilothouse and the stack?
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