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Smith Street Line: Windsor Terrace: Brooklyn Bridge 9th Street and Smith Street February 11, 1951 now the B57 bus Third Avenue Line: Fort Hamilton: Brooklyn Bridge 3rd Avenue March 1, 1942 B37 bus until June 2010, service restored June 29, 2014 Fifth Avenue Line: Fort Hamilton: Cobble Hill: 5th Avenue and Atlantic Avenue February 20, 1949 now ...
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The B47 is a surface transit line on Ralph Avenue in Brooklyn, New York City. Once a streetcar line, [5] it is now part of the B47 bus route, operated by the New York City Transit Authority, Prior to 1995, it was the B78 route; the northern part of the route from St. Johns Place to Woodhull Hospital was part of the B40 line. The B47 was created ...
Around this time, many streetcar lines in Brooklyn and the rest of the city began to be replaced by buses, particularly after the unification of the city's three primary transit companies (including the BMT) under municipal operations in June 1940. [38] [39] By 1949, the Utica line was one of eleven remaining streetcar routes in Brooklyn. [40]
The B70 bus route is a public transit line in Brooklyn in New York City, running mostly on 8th Avenue and 39th Street between Sunset Park and Fort Hamilton. [3] [4] The route was originally a streetcar line known as the Eighth Avenue Line, and is currently operated by MTA New York City Bus.
The Putnam Avenue Line is a public transit line in Brooklyn, New York City, running mostly along Fulton Street, Putnam Avenue, and Halsey Street between downtown Brooklyn and Ridgewood, Queens. Originally a streetcar line , it is now the B26 Halsey/Fulton Streets bus route , operated by the New York City Transit Authority .
In 1899, the line was electrified, renamed to the Coney Island-Norton's Point Line and became a part of the South Brooklyn Railway, with the steam cars substitued for el cars. [4] On July 3, 1910, the el cars were replaced with streetcars, although from May 1918 to October 1919, they reverted back to using el cars. [ 5 ]
The Brooklyn City Rail Road opened a line along Fulton Street from Fulton Ferry on July 6, 1854; [5] it reached East New York by 1874. [6] Buses were substituted for streetcars on August 10, 1941. [citation needed] In 1998, the line was extended further into DUMBO to Water Street and Main Street during the daytime hours on weekdays. [7]