New York and Long Island Traction Company

New York and Long Island Traction Company

The New York and Long Island Traction Company was a street railway company in Queens and Nassau County, New York, United States.[1] It operated from New York City east to Freeport,[1] Hempstead,[1] and Mineola.[2]


The railroad had two main lines; The Mineola Line(Now the Long Island Bus N24 line) which spanned from Queens Village into Mineola in Nassau County, New York along Jamaica Avenue, and the Brooklyn-Freeport Line, which spanned from Brooklyn to Freeport, also in Nassau County, and ran mostly along Rockaway Boulevard, North Conduit Avenue, and Sunrise Highway.


Notes

  1. ^ a b c Bill Bleyer, Freeport: Action on the Nautical Mile, Newsday.com. Accessed online 14 November 2008.
  2. ^ [Images of Rail: Lost Trolleys of Queens and Long Island, by Stephen L. Meyers(2006)]

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