List of streetcar lines in Brooklyn
- List of streetcar lines in Brooklyn
The following streetcar lines once operated in Brooklyn, New York City, New York, United States.
History
The history of surface line operation in Brooklyn is long and very complicated, and is best presented under one of the following sub-articles which maintain the proper family tree for each of the lines listed below. These subsidiary articles are:
;BRT/BMT subsidiaries
*Brooklyn and Queens Transit Corporation, the main company after 1929
*Brooklyn City Railroad
*Brooklyn Heights Railroad
*Brooklyn, Queens County and Suburban Railroad
*Coney Island and Brooklyn Railroad
*Coney Island and Gravesend Railway
*Nassau Electric Railroad
;Companies not owned by the BRT/BMT or jointly owned
*Brooklyn and North River Railroad
*Bush Terminal Railroad
*Coney Island, Sheepshead Bay and Ocean Avenue Railroad
*Manhattan Bridge Three Cent Line
*Marine Railway
*Maspeth Railroad and Bridge Company
*Van Brunt Street and Erie Basin Railroad
BMT
Almost every surface line in Brooklyn eventually came under control of the Brooklyn and Queens Transit Corporation, a subsidiary of the Brooklyn-Manhattan Transit Corporation, [ [http://www.bmt-lines.com/images/bqtmap.jpgBMT Surface Division map] , undated] prior to the takeover of the lines by the New York City Board of Transportation on June 5, 1940. Many of the lines ended at the Brooklyn Bridge in downtown Brooklyn or Williamsburg Bridge in Williamsburg, with some going over to the Park Row or Essex Street terminals in Manhattan. The small number of BMT streetcar lines that operated only in Queens are also included here.
Other companies
ee also
*Trolley dodger
References
*Williams Map and Guide Company, [http://memory.loc.gov/cgi-bin/query/r?ammem/gmd:@field(NUMBER+@band(g3804n+ct001640v)) Map of the borough of Queens] , 1923
* [http://hometown.aol.com/chirailfan/nycmain.html Chicago Transit & Railfan Web Site: New York City Transit]
* [http://www.thejoekorner.com/lines/bklyntrolleys.htm The JoeKorNer: Brooklyn Trolleys]
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