Culver Line (surface)

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The Culver Line, Gravesend Avenue Line, or McDonald Avenue Line was a surface public transit line in Brooklyn, New York City, United States, running along McDonald Avenue and built by the Prospect Park and Coney Island Railroad. Most of its main line has been essentially replaced by the BMT Culver Line of the New York City Subway.

The company originally owned a streetcar line - the Vanderbilt Avenue Line - from Prospect Park north to downtown Brooklyn.

After the ca. 1900 consolidation of most streetcar lines in Brooklyn under the Brooklyn Rapid Transit Company, many summer services were operated from other lines onto the Culver to Coney Island. These included:^[1][2]

• Court Street Line, Park Row in Lower Manhattan to Coney Island
• Fifteenth Street Line, Hamilton Ferry in Red Hook, Brooklyn to Coney Island
• Myrtle-Culver Line, Ridgewood, Queens to Coney Island
• Nostrand-Culver Line, Essex Street in Lower East Side, Manhattan to Coney Island
• Reid Avenue Line, Essex Street to Coney Island
• Tompkins-Culver Line, Greenpoint Ferry in Greenpoint, Brooklyn to Coney Island
• Union Street Line, Park Row to Coney Island
• Vanderbilt Avenue Line, Park Row to Coney Island

[edit] References

1. ^ Carl-Axel Rheborg, Pocket Guide to New York, 1906
2. ^ Brooklyn Daily Eagle, Brooklyn Daily Eagle Almanac, 1916