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58st and 2nd avenue, look up top on the building - B.C.R.R Co. 1898

There is a list of lines in Brooklyn Daily Eagle 1/8/1888 page 2:

And in 1/27/1889 page 15:

And the lines of the Bushwick Railroad:

  • Bushwick Line from Grand Street Ferry on Kent Avenue, Broadway, Bedford Avenue, South 4th Street, Bushwick Avenue, and Myrtle Avenue to Queens
  • Greenpoint Line from 10th and 23rd Street Ferries on Greenpoint Avenue, Manhattan Avenue, Van Cott Avenue (Driggs Avenue), Graham Avenue, and Meserole Street to Bushwick Avenue
  • Tompkins Avenue Line from South 7th Street Ferry to Bergen Street and "Brighton Beach Junction"
  • also steam cars from the city line to Cypress Hills and Lutheran Cemetery

--NE2 17:59, 9 January 2007 (UTC)[reply]

"Franchises". Brooklyn Daily Eagle. Brooklyn, NY. 22 October 1877. p. 2. has some history. --NE2 23:27, 24 February 2007 (UTC)[reply]

The Greenpoint Line opened to North 2nd Street on August 26, 1854.[1]

References

  1. ^ "City News and Gossip". Brooklyn Daily Eagle. Brooklyn, NY. 28 August 1854. p. 3.

1919 split

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The Brooklyn City Railroad split from the Brooklyn Heights Railroad on October 19, 1919, taking 28 lines with it (according to [1]). The Brooklyn and Queens Transit Corporation took over operations on July 1, 1929.

Here I attempt to list these 28 lines by eliminating shuttles and other duplicates. --NE2 09:53, 9 March 2007 (UTC)[reply]

This is a total of 30. --NE2 09:53, 9 March 2007 (UTC)[reply]