Graham Avenue Line and Tompkins Avenue Line

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Graham Avenue Line and Tompkins Avenue Line
Overview
System MTA New York City Bus
Operator New York City Transit Authority
Garage Jackie Gleason Depot
Vehicle Orion VII
New Flyer C40LF
New Flyer XN40
Began service July 1854 (Graham Avenue streetcar)
September 10, 1995 (B43)
Route
Locale Brooklyn
Start Greenpoint– Box Street
Via Manhattan Avenue, Graham Avenue, Tompkins Avenue
End Lefferts Gardens– Prospect Park "B" train "Q" train Franklin Avenue Shuttle
Service
Operates All times
Fare $2.75 (MetroCard or coins)
Cash Coins only (exact change required)
Transfers Yes
Timetable B43
← B42    B44 →

The Graham Avenue Line and Tompkins Avenue Line were two public transit lines in Brooklyn, New York City with the Graham Avenue Line running mainly along Graham Avenue, and Manhattan Avenue and the Tompkins Avenue Line running mainly along Tompkins Avenue. The Graham Avenue line ran between Downtown Brooklyn and Greenpoint and the Tompkins Avenue Line ran between Prospect Lefferts Gardens and Williamsburg. Originally streetcar lines, they were replaced by the B47 and B62 bus routes which were then combined to form the B43 route which currently operates between Prospect-Lefferts Gardens and Greenpoint. The line is dispatched from Jackie Gleason Depot in Sunset Park, Brooklyn.

B43 bus route

The B43 route is a combination of the then discontinued B47 (although the route number is still used today for a different service) and B62 routes. The B47 route replaced the Tompkins Avenue Line running between Prospect-Lefferts Gardens and Williamsburg along Empire Boulevard, Kingston Avenue, Tompkins Avenue, and Harrison Avenue, and the B62 route replaced the Graham Avenue line running between Downtown Brooklyn and Greenpoint along Flushing Avenue, Manhattan Avenue and Graham Avenue. On September 10, 1995,[1][2] the B47 and B62 were combined to form the present-day B43 route.[2] When the routes were combined, the Harrison Avenue portion of the B47 was removed along with the Flushing Avenue section of the B62.

The B43 bus route runs between Lincoln Road near Ocean Avenue and the Prospect Park subway station in Prospect-Lefferts Gardens and Manhattan Avenue and Box Street in Greenpoint via Manhattan Avenue, Graham Avenue, and Tompkins Avenue at all times.

The route serves Prospect Park, the Boathouse on the Lullwater of the Lake in Prospect Park, the Prospect Park Carousel, the Lefferts Historic House, the Prospect Park Zoo, the Brooklyn Botanic Garden, the Jewish Children's Museum, Brower Park, the Brooklyn Children's Museum, Restoration Plaza, the Woodhull Medical and Mental Health Center, and McCarren Park. It also connects with the B13, B15 to JFK Airport, B16, B24, B25, B26, B38, B41 Limited, B44, B45, B46 Limited, B47, B48, B49 Limited, B52, B54, B57, B60, B62, B65, Q54, and Q59 bus routes and the following subway stations:

History of the Graham Avenue Line

The Brooklyn City Railroad opened the line, as the Flushing Avenue Line, in July 1854 as a branch of the Fulton Street Line continuing east along Flushing Avenue to Throop Avenue with an extension to Division Avenue (present-day Broadway) in April 1855.[3] It was later extended north along Graham Avenue to North Second Street (present-day Metropolitan Avenue) in 1867[4][5] and to Van Cott Avenue (present-day Driggs Avenue) in October 1872.[6]

On April 27, 1890, Brooklyn City opened new trackage on Flushing Avenue from Graham Avenue east to Metropolitan Avenue, with the service operating on it becoming the new Flushing Avenue Line,[7] and the old Flushing Avenue Line being renamed the Flushing and Graham Avenues Line and afterwards, the Graham Avenue Line. The Graham Avenue Line was later extended north along existing trackage on Driggs Avenue and Manhattan Avenue to Hunters Point. Buses were substituted for streetcars on December 21, 1948.

See also

References

  1. ↑ New York Times, Coming Transit Reductions: What They Mean for You, August 20, 1995, section 13, page 10
  2. 1 2 "AT-A-GLANCE BUS SERVICE CHANGES". Daily News (New York). September 17, 1995. Retrieved 19 December 2015.
  3. ↑ John Homer French, Gazetteer of the State of New York, 1860, pages 66 and 67
  4. ↑ "Railroad Enterprise". Brooklyn Daily Eagle. Brooklyn, NY. 19 December 1867. p. 2.
  5. ↑ "The Lufaner Inquest Continued". Brooklyn Daily Eagle. Brooklyn, NY. 25 January 1868. p. 2.
  6. ↑ "City Railroad Extension". Brooklyn Daily Eagle. Brooklyn, NY. 7 October 1872. p. 11.
  7. ↑ "City Railroad Changes". Brooklyn Daily Eagle. Brooklyn, NY. 25 April 1890. p. 1.
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