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This was taken on Monday June 2, 1913. "Edward Payson Weston, America's famous long-distance pedestrian..." Veteran walker Mr. Weston was setting off from the plaza of the College of the City of New York (139th street) at noon for a walk to Chicago - a distance of 999 miles. He reckoned to make 25 miles per day. Here is the link to the relevant New York Times article of Sunday June 1, 1913: query.nytimes.com/gst/abstract.html?res=9404EEDA143FE633A... Remarkably, Mr. Weston covered the New York City to Chicago walk over 36 waling daysin 1909. Here is his wikipedia entry which encapsulates his pedestrian career, he lived 1839 - 1929: en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Edward_Payson_Weston

Thanks so much lifeasdaddy, for all of the useful information. We'll add the information about Weston to the title, and include the date next time we revise this record.

June 2, 1913 according to date on negative. The same day, the NYT query.nytimes.com/gst/abstract.html?res=9B00E7D8143FE633A... indicated that a big party of mothers, babies, and toddlers would be taken from East 23rd Street to Sea Breeze, Coney Island for 2 weeks. 300-500 would leave every Monday morning until October.

swang, Think you've got the wrong link here! t

Retired Rambler, Go through to the PDF and you will find a second article on Outings for the Poor. The NYT's article segmentation is not always perfect. When a piece is very short, it often is combined with the following piece.

Yes, swang the pdf url is query.nytimes.com/mem/archive-free/pdf?res=9B00E7D8143FE6...

swanq: What an interesting story! Thanks for sharing a bit more context for the image. When we update the record, we will be able to expand the descriptive information for this photograph.

This must be one of the defunct Brooklyn Ferry terminals, the gangways are still the same design on the Staten Island Ferry.