Over and BackAsk the average American anywhere in the country to answer the association question "Staten Island" and you get "Ferry" in immediate response. what is regularly billed as "America's favorite boatride" not least because a round trip still costs an astonishing twenty five cents is the last public survivor of New York Harbor's once immense fleet of those doughty double ended ferryboats. Dozens of ferryboats in a myriad of liveries crossed the harbor's