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The original BMT routes form the J/Z, L, M, N, Q, R and W trains, as well as the Franklin Avenue Shuttle, with the IND B and D using BMT trackage in Brooklyn. The M train enters the IND via the Chrystie Street Connection after crossing the Williamsburg Bridge. The Q, along with some rush-hour N trains enter the IND from the BMT 63rd Street Line.
Greenwood Heights: Brownsville: 39th Street and Church Avenue October 31, 1956 now the B35 bus Gravesend and Church Avenues Line: Kensington: Brownsville: Gravesend Avenue (McDonald Avenue) and Church Avenue June 1, 1949 same service continued as short run of Church Avenue Line until 10/31/1956; not replaced New Lots Avenue Line: Brownsville ...
The Brooklyn Union Elevated Railroad was incorporated on January 30, 1899, and acquired the property of the bankrupt Brooklyn Elevated Railroad on February 17. The BRT gained control a month later, on March 25, [1] and leased the elevated company to the Brooklyn Heights Railroad, until then solely a street railway company, on April 1.
These lines and services were operated by the Brooklyn–Manhattan Transit Corporation (BMT) and city-owned Independent Subway System (IND) before the 1940 city takeover of the BMT. B Division rolling stock is wider, longer, and heavier than those of the A Division , measuring 10 or 9.75 ft (3,048 or 2,972 mm) by 60 or 75 ft (18.29 or 22.86 m).
The BMT Canarsie Line (sometimes referred to as the 14th Street–Eastern Line) is a rapid transit line of the B Division of the New York City Subway system, named after its terminus in the Canarsie neighborhood of Brooklyn.
The last through service, on Saturdays, ran on February 16, 1963 in advance of new BMT schedules in effect the next day, [12] resulting in the 7 Franklin Avenue Line becoming a full-time shuttle. On November 1, 1965, when R27s started going into service, this service was named SS , and in 1985, when the practice of using double letters was ...
The Yuma Century Heights Conservancy Residential Historic District – roughly bounded by 4th Ave., 8th St., and 1st and Orange Aves. Listed in the National Register of Historic Places on November 10, 1988.
What is now the Franklin Avenue Line was part of the modern-day Brighton Beach Line until 1920, when the two lines were split north of Prospect Park. [2] [3] The Brooklyn, Flatbush, and Coney Island Railway (BF&CI), which built the Brighton Line, was incorporated in 1877 in order to connect Downtown Brooklyn with the hotels and resorts at Coney Island, Manhattan Beach, and Brighton Beach.