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Park Avenue Line: Brooklyn Bridge Trinity Cemetery: Park Avenue and Wilson Avenue June 19, 1930 Flushing Avenue Line: Brooklyn Bridge Maspeth, Queens: Flushing Avenue November 21, 1948 now the B57 bus Broadway Line: Williamsburg Bridge Cypress Hills: Broadway and Fulton Street January 15, 1950 now the Q24 (ex-B22) bus Williamsburg Bridge Local
Many areas that the new streetcar would have served are 0.5 miles (0.80 km) from the IND Crosstown Line (G train), while areas in Eastern Queens and parts of Brooklyn had no nearby subway lines. Since the project would have been constructed and run by New York City and not the MTA, it is not known how it would have integrated with the MTA's ...
Broadway Line (Brooklyn surface) Brooklyn and North River Line; Brooklyn and Queens Transit Corporation; Brooklyn Bridge trolleys; Brooklyn City Railroad; Brooklyn Heights Railroad; Brooklyn Historic Railway Association; Brooklyn–Queens Connector; Brooklyn, Queens County and Suburban Railroad; Brooklyn Rapid Transit Company; Bushwick Avenue Line
The Brooklyn–Manhattan Transit Corporation took over the assets of the Brooklyn Rapid Transit Company on June 15, 1923, following the previous company's bankruptcy. [2] Like its predecessor it controlled subsidiaries which operated the great majority of the rapid transit and streetcar lines in Brooklyn with extensions into Queens and Manhattan.
The entire route was a single line, the B61, until January 3, 2010; [2] the B62 was previously a separate, parallel route between Downtown Brooklyn and Greenpoint, [6] now part of the B43 route. The streetcar line, B61 and the original B62 previously operated from the now-closed Crosstown Depot in Greenpoint. [7]
Former B&QT streetcar #4547 at the Seashore Trolley Museum. The Brooklyn and Queens Transit Corporation (B&QT) was a subsidiary of the Brooklyn–Manhattan Transit Corporation that operated streetcars in Brooklyn and Queens, New York City, United States (as well as into Manhattan via the Brooklyn Bridge and Williamsburg Bridge).
The Court Street Line, Flatbush Avenue Line, Fulton Street Line, Gates Avenue Line, Myrtle Avenue Line, Putnam Avenue Line, and Union Street Line were moved to this route. [4] [5] On January 26, 1908, Brooklyn Bridge Local trolley service between the two ends of the bridge was introduced
This is a list of past and present streetcar (tram), interurban, and light rail systems in the United States. System here refers to all streetcar infrastructure and rolling stock in a given metropolitan area. In many U.S. cities, the streetcar system was operated by a succession of private companies; this is not a list of streetcar operating ...