Talk:Brooklyn City Railroad
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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:
- Flatbush Avenue Line
- Graham Avenue Line (still called the Flushing Avenue Line)
- Fulton Street Line
- Furman Street Line
- Gates Avenue Line
- Greenpoint Line via Classon Avenue or Washington Avenue
- Greenwood Line, Court Street, 3rd Avenue, and 5th Avenue, connecting with steam to Coney Island
- Hamilton Avenue Line to Greenwood Cemetery, connecting at 25th Street for steam to Bay Ridge and Fort Hamilton
- Myrtle Avenue Line
- Putnam Avenue Line to Broadway, with transfer to Ridgewood (presumable the Howard Avenue track)
- Third Avenue Line to Greenwood Cemetery
And in 1/27/1889 page 15:
- Myrtle Avenue Line, July 3, 1854
- Fulton Street Line, July 6, 1854
- Greenwood Line via Court Street, August 8, 1854
- Flushing Avenue Line, about the same time
- Flatbush Avenue Line
- Gates Avenue Line
- Furman Street Line
- Greenpoint Line via Classon Avenue or Washington Avenue
- Hamilton Avenue Line
- Putnam Avenue Line
- Third Avenue Line
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)
"Franchises", Brooklyn Daily Eagle, October 22, 1877, p. 2. has some history. --NE2 23:27, 24 February 2007 (UTC)
The Greenpoint Line opened to North 2nd Street on August 26, 1854.[1]
[edit] 1919 split
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)
- Avenue C Line
- Bay Ridge Avenue Line
- Bushwick Avenue Line
- Calvary Cemetery Line
- Court Street Line
- Crosstown Line
- Cypress Hills Line
- Flatbush Avenue Line
- Flushing Avenue Line/Flushing and Knickerbocker Avenues Line
- Flushing-Ridgewood Line
- Fulton Street Line
- Graham Avenue Line
- Grand Street Line
- Greene and Gates Avenues Line
- Greenpoint Line
- Hamilton Avenue Line
- Holy Cross Line
- Lorimer Street Line
- Lutheran Line
- Meeker Avenue Line
- Myrtle Avenue Line
- Nassau Avenue Line?
- Nostrand Avenue Line
- Putnam Avenue and Halsey Street Line
- Richmond Hill Line
- Third Avenue Line
- 39th Street Ferry-Fort Hamilton Line (via Second Avenue)
- Tompkins Avenue Line
- Union Avenue Line
- Wyckoff Avenue Line
This is a total of 30. --NE2 09:53, 9 March 2007 (UTC)
