Talk:List of streetcar lines in Brooklyn/Depots

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[edit] 1896 list (partial?)

The following is from "Militia in the Strike", Brooklyn Daily Eagle, June 14, 1896, p. 26. ; the actual names are from other sources.

Car houses
  • Reid near Fulton
  • Ralph and Atlantic
  • Gillen Place (west of Fanchon Place) and Jamaica Avenue
  • 3rd Avenue and Atlantic (office and stable)
Depots
  • Bergen Street Depot, Bergen between Troy and Albany
  • 5th Avenue and 24th Street
  • Ninth Avenue Depot, 9th Avenue and 20th Street
  • 7th Avenue and 20th Street
  • Butler and Nostrand
  • Bergen and Albany
  • 5th Avenue and 36th Street
  • Franklin Avenue Depot?, Franklin and Greene
  • Flushing Avenue Depot, Flushing between Nostrand and Marcy
  • Myrtle Avenue Depot?, Myrtle near Broadway (depot and repair shop)
  • Ridgewood Depot?, Gates, Wyckoff, and Palmetto
  • Gates Avenue Depot, Gates and Ralph
  • Halsey Street Depot, Halsey and Putnam [just west of Broadway]
  • East New York Depot, Broadway and Jamaica
  • Fulton near Brooklyn
  • Flatbush and Vernon
  • 58th Street Depot, 3rd Avenue and 58th Street
  • Hamilton and Bush
  • Fulton and Tompkins? (doesn't say what it is)
  • Nostrand and Carroll
  • Nostrand and Park
  • Crosstown Depot, Manhattan and Box
  • Richards and Coffee
  • Meeker and North Henry
  • State near Furman
  • Ridgewood Depot?, Myrtle and city line
Power houses
  • 3rd Avenue between 1st and 2nd Streets
  • 2nd Avenue and 52nd Street
  • Kent and Division
  • 58th Street and 2nd Avenue
  • Herkimer Street (electric station)
  • Hudson Avenue (electric station)
  • Wyckoff and Woodbine
Other
  • 3rd Avenue and 25th Street (shop)

[edit] By company

Brooklyn City Railroad/Brooklyn Heights Railroad
  • east side of Third Avenue between 25th and 26th Streets (depot)
  • east side of Nostrand Avenue on both sides of Carroll Street; later between Carroll and President Streets
  • Crosstown Depot, west side of Manhattan Avenue between Box and Clay Streets (depot)
  • east side of Franklin Street between Freeman and Greene Streets
  • southeast corner of Meeker Avenue and Henry Street (depot)
  • south side of Flushing Avenue a bit west of Marcy Avenue (depot), opened 1886[1]
  • north side of Myrtle Avenue between Lewis Avenue and Broadway (stables)
  • south side of Myrtle Avenue a bit east of Harman Street (depot)
  • south side of Fulton Street a bit west of Brooklyn Avenue (depot; stable on south side of Herkimer Street); later only the latter (south side of Herkimer Street halfway between Brooklyn and New York Avenues)
  • between Quincy Street and Gates Avenue a bit east of Throop Avenue
  • Halsey Street Depot, north side of Halsey Street a bit east of Saratoga Avenue, opened November 4, 1885[1]
  • 52nd Street Depot, between Second Avenue and East River, between 52nd and 53rd Streets (power house and repair shop)
  • 58th Street Depot, between Second and Third Avenues, between 58th and 59th Streets
  • Flatbush Depot, south side of Avenue N between 49th Street and Utica Avenue
  • Fresh Pond Depot
  • Maspeth Depot
  • Ridgewood Depot
  • Vernon Avenue Depot, north side of Duryea Place between Flatbush Avenue and Bedford Avenue
Atlantic Avenue Railroad
  • Third Avenue Depot, at Atlantic Avenue?
  • Fifth Avenue Depot, between Fifth and Sixth Avenues, between 23th and 24th Streets
  • Seventh Avenue Depot, east side of Seventh Avenue between 19th and 20th Streets
  • Ninth Avenue Depot; Prospect Park and Coney Island Depot, between Ninth and Tenth Avenues, between 19th and 20th Streets (PP&CI, leased by NERR)
  • Bergen Street Depot, between Bergen and Dean Streets a bit east of Albany Avenue
  • Butler Street Depot
  • Crosstown Depot
  • South Brooklyn Central Depot, north side of Bergen Street a bit east of Classon Avenue (depot)
  • southwest corner of Fifth Avenue and 27th Street (BB&CI depot)
Nassau Electric Railroad (new)
  • Canarsie Depot, south side of New Lots Road (realigned into Hegeman Avenue) between Chester Street and Rockaway Boulevard
  • Ulmer Park Depot
Brooklyn, Queens County and Suburban Railroad
  • west-northwest corner of Broadway and Ellery Street (stables)
  • East New York Depot, northeast corner of Gillen Place (west of Fanchon Place) and Jamaica Avenue, plus a much larger area (labeled BRT)
Coney Island and Brooklyn Railroad
  • Franklin Avenue Depot?, northwest corner of Franklin Avenue and Warren Street (Prospect Place), original depot from 1871[2]
  • between Braxton Street (Windsor Place) and 15th Street, west of Coney Island Avenue
  • DeKalb Avenue Depot?, south side of DeKalb Avenue a bit east of Yates Avenue (Sumner Avenue) (depot)
South Brooklyn Railway
  • 39th Street Depot, between Second and Third Avenues, between 38th and 39th Streets
Van Brunt Street and Erie Basin Railroad
  • west side of Van Brunt Street between Verona and Delavan Streets (car house)
Unknown
  • east side of Fifth Avenue between 36th and 37th Streets (BRT elevated depot)
  • south side of Wyckoff Avenue between Palmetto and Madison Streets (BRT)
  • bounded by Hamilton Avenue, Bush Street, and Smith Street (BRT)
  • east side of Smith Street between Ninth Street and Mill Street (Garnet Street) (BRT)
  • between Third Avenue and canal, between First and Second Streets (BRT power house)
  • Williamsburg Power House, west side of Kent Avenue between Division Avenue and Rush Street (BRT)
  • 65th Street Depot?, between First and Second Avenues, between 63rd and 65th Streets (BRT yard)

[edit] References

  1. ^ a b "Quick Travel", Brooklyn Daily Eagle, January 7, 1886, p. 1. 
  2. ^ "The Newest of the City Railroads", Brooklyn Daily Eagle, October 23, 1871, p. 2.