The city's Department of Transportation formally commissioned a new Staten Island Ferry boat on Friday, with the orange vessel named in honor of Dorothy Day, the venerable journalist and social justice activist who for decades called Staten Island home.
The city’s Department of Transportation formally commissioned a new Staten Island Ferry boat on Friday, with the orange vessel named in honor of Dorothy Day, the venerable journalist and social justice activist who for decades called Staten Island home.class, the first new vessels running the Manhattan-to-Staten Island route since 2005.
Day was one of 20th-century America’s most prominent activists for social justice. An anarchist and leftist by disposition, the native Brooklynite spent her youth working as a journalist and a social justice activist; she was arrested for the first time in 1917 while protesting for women’s suffrage, and embarked on a hunger strike in jail.
She was arrested a number of times for her activities, the last time taking place in 1973 at age 75 on the picket line with striking farmworkers.Since her death from a heart attack in 1980, Day’s legacy has grown, especially in the world of Catholicism. She was invoked by Pope Francis during a speech to Congress in 2015, and is under consideration for sainthood by the church; for the latter, she has been bestowed the posthumous title “Servant of God.
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