Scott,

The Library of Congress maintains a digitized database of hundreds of
historic newspapers via the site Chronicling America.

May I suggest cross-referencing daily NYC papers and/or from specific
borough Clemens/Twain was visiting / staying re: specific day in 1854 to
get minimally a daily schedule of transportation options Clements/Twain may
have had available? I am not familiar with specifics of Twain's visit &
correspondence from New York but possibly there was a special ferry or
other excursion advertised that Clemens/Twain wrote about?

https://tinyurl.com/NYCnewspapers1854LOC
<https://tinyurl.com/NYCnewspapers1854LOC>
29 digitized historic newspapers from New York state maintained by LOC's
site. A cursory review looks like several should have available issues from
1854.
A close sifting through of these newspapers may yield something helpful.

JHM

On Thu, Jul 6, 2023 at 1:58 PM Scott Holmes <[log in to unmask]> wrote:

> Rather than omnibuses, I found this bit:
>
> The horse-drawn streetcar was the standard mode of mass transit in New
> York City for over fifty years until steam (starting in 1883) and
> electric (1890) powered trolleys edged onto the scene, followed by the
> growth of the subway starting in 1903. The era of the horse-drawn
> streetcar ended on July 26, 1917 with the closure of the Bleecker Street
> line. By 1912, cars outnumbered horses in New York City, and trolleys
> met their demise at the hands of the automobile and Robert Moses several
> decades later.
>
>
> https://www.villagepreservation.org/2018/11/14/the-birth-of-mass-transit-in-nyc/
>
>
> On 7/6/23 10:41, Scott Holmes wrote:
> > Thank you very much for this Washington DC color.  I thought I had a
> > copy of your book but couldn't find one, so I ordered a copy.  I had
> > referenced it in my entry for Washington DC in 1854 but failed to
> > include anything about transportation.  This still does not answer my
> > problem with Manhattan, however.  I have a large blank space on my map
> > of Manhattan.  Given that Twain spent a great deal of time in New York
> > City, I would like to address how he got around while there.
> >
> > On 7/6/23 06:36, John H. Muller wrote:
> >> Scott,
> >>
> >> Here's a blog post from several years ago that briefly looks at Twain's
> >> 1854 visit to Washington City and his self-reported travels on a DC
> >> omnibus.
> >> https://ggwash.org/view/31617/in-1854-tod-meant-proximity-to-omnibus
> >>
> >> I didn't include in the article context that DC's omnibus system was
> >> much
> >> smaller in range and younger in existence than the system in NYC.
> >>
> >> Good luck with your research.
> >>
> >> John Muller
> >> author, *Mark Twain in Washington, D.C. *
> >>
> >>
> >> On Wed, Jul 5, 2023 at 2:53 PM Scott Holmes<[log in to unmask]>
> >> wrote:
> >>
> >>> I would appreciate any leads on just how Sam traveled in Manhattan.
> >>> There does not seem to be any maps of railroads on the island but there
> >>> are ferry terminals.  I must assume that he used omnibuses.
> >>>
> >>> --
> >>> /Unaffiliated Geographer and Twain aficionado/
> >>>
> >>
> --
> /Unaffiliated Geographer and Twain aficionado/
>


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