Probably A Typo

From Max Hubacher, April 9, 1949, “View from the Liberty Street-CNF ferry on lower Manhattan”: Had he turned a bit more to the right, this would have been a classic view of the Financial District. As it is, he got the Woolworth Building, New York Telephone on the left (behind the pier with two pyramids at its free end), the West Street Building (on the far right) with Singer sticking up behind it, and (between Woolworth and West Street) a bunch of buildings that were demolished about twenty years later to create the World Trade Center site. The biggest of the future tear-downs are the two buildings (similar in style, different widths) that made up the Hudson Terminal of what is now the PATH train system. Just one problem: what is the “Liberty Street-CNF Ferry”? It’s not a transcription error. Here’s the original caption: There were a bunch of ferries from New Jersey railroad terminals to Manhattan. This ferry is easy to track down: the Liberty Street pier was used by the Central…