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opened by the Broadway and Seventh Avenue Railroad in 1864; leased by the Houston, West Street and Pavonia Ferry Railroad in 1893; leased by the Metropolitan Street Railway in 1893; leased by New York Railways in 1911; replaced by New York City Omnibus Corporation buses on February 12, 1936 (now the M5 bus) New York Railways: Lexington Avenue Line
Horse-drawn streetcars in New York City in 1895. The first streetcar lines in North America were opened in New York City in 1832. From the 1820s to the 1880s urban transit in North America began when horse-drawn omnibus lines started to operate along city streets. Examples included Gilbert Vanderwerken's 1826 omnibus service in Newark, New ...
The Brooklyn Historic Railway Association (BHRA) is a 501(c)(3) nonprofit organization with a shop, trolley barn and offices located in Red Hook, Brooklyn, New York, on the historic Beard Street Piers (c. 1870). BHRA had a fleet of 16 trolleys (15 PCC trolleys and a leased 1897 trolley car from the Oslo Trams, in Oslo, Norway).
Second-hand from Washington DC. [59] [60] Brooklyn & Queens Transit: United States: 100: 0: 100: First cars delivered in 1936. The sole Clark-built PCC ran here. Withdrawal began in 1950, system abandoned in 1956. [61] Cars 1000 and 1001 are preserved in museums. Cleveland Transit System: United States: 50: 25: 75: Second-hand cars purchased ...
At ground-level was an additional terminal for through-trolley service from the New York Railways Company and Third Avenue Railway, whose lines traveled from Manhattan along the north side of the bridge to the Washington Plaza trolley terminal in Williamsburg, Brooklyn. The covered exit stairs from the subway and underground terminal led ...
@curbalertnyc is New York’s second-largest stooping account, and it came to be via its anonymous founder’s passion for sustainability. “I used to see 'curb alert listings on Craigslist, but ...
Chicago Transit & Railfan Web Site: New York City Transit; The New York and Queens County Railway AND The Steinway Lines 1867-1939, Vincent F. Seyfried, 1950; The Don Harold and Francis J. Goldsmith, Jr. Brooklyn El and Trolley Pages (The JoeKorNer: Brooklyn Trolleys) "PRR Chronology, Discontinuance/Last Runs of Passenger Service" (PDF).
New York's mass transit systems—the elevated steam railway above and cable trolleys below in the 1890s. [1] The history of trams, streetcars, or trolleys began in the early nineteenth century. It can be divided up into several discrete periods defined by the principal means of motive power used. [2]