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The Brooklyn Heights Railroad was a

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company in the

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. It leased and operated the streetcar lines of the

Brooklyn Rapid Transit Company The Brooklyn Rapid Transit Company (BRT) was a public transit holding company formed in 1896 to acquire and consolidate railway lines in Brooklyn and Queens, New York City, United States. It was a prominent corporation and industry leader using ...

, but started out with the Montague Street Line, a short

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line connecting the

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with

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along Montague Street. Eliphalet Williams Bliss owned the railroad.Lords of Owls Head
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Controlled lines

According to articles in the

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, BHRR included the following lines between 1895 and 1899:

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* Bay Ridge Line * Bath Beach and Bensonhurst Line to Ulmer Park * Brighton Beach Line * Bergen Beach Line * Bowery Bay Line * Broadway Line *

Broadway and Jamaica Avenue Line Broadway may refer to: Theatre * Broadway Theatre (disambiguation) * Broadway theatre, theatrical productions in professional theatres near Broadway, Manhattan, New York City, U.S. ** Broadway (Manhattan), the street **Broadway Theatre (53rd Stre ...

* Brooklyn Hills Line * Bushwick-Meeker Line * Bushwick Avenue Line

C

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* Corona Line *

Court Street Line A court is any person or institution, often as a government institution, with the authority to adjudicate legal disputes between parties and carry out the administration of justice in civil, criminal, and administrative matters in accordanc ...

* Crosstown Line *

Coney Island and Brighton Beach Line Coney may refer to: Places * Côney, a river in eastern France * Coney, Georgia, an unincorporated community in the United States * Coney Island (disambiguation) People * Dean Coney (born 1963), English footballer * Hykiem Coney (1982–200 ...

Cypress Hills Line Cypress is a common name for various coniferous trees or shrubs of northern temperate regions that belong to the family Cupressaceae. The word ''cypress'' is derived from Old French ''cipres'', which was imported from Latin ''cypressus'', the ...

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East New York Line The Fulton Street Line or East New York Line was a streetcar line in Brooklyn, New York City, running mainly along Fulton Street between Fulton Ferry and East New York. In 1941, the streetcar line was replaced by the B25 bus route, operated ...

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* Flatbush Avenue Line *

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* Forest Park Line * Fort Hamilton Line * Fresh Pond Line * Fulton Street Line *

Furman Street Line The Furman Street Line was a street railway line in Brooklyn, New York City, United States, running along Furman Street from Cobble Hill, Brooklyn, Cobble Hill to Fulton Ferry, Brooklyn, Fulton Ferry. History When the Brooklyn City Rail Road was g ...

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* Gates Avenue Line * Glendale Line * Graham Avenue Line * Grand Street Line *

Greene and Gates Avenues Line The B52 is a bus route that constitutes a public transit line operating in Brooklyn, New York City, running mostly along Fulton Street, Greene Avenue, and Gates Avenue between Downtown Brooklyn and Ridgewood, Queens. The B52 is operated by the ...

* Greenpoint Line * Greenpoint Line

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Hamilton Avenue Line The B33 was a public transit line in Brooklyn, New York City, running mostly along Hamilton Avenue between Bay Ridge and Hamilton Ferry at the north end of the avenue in Red Hook. Originally a streetcar line known as the Hamilton Avenue Line, i ...

* Holy Cross Cemetery Line

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* Jamaica Line

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* Kingston Avenue Line

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Lorimer Street Line The B48 bus route constitutes a public transit line in Brooklyn, New York City, running along Lorimer Street, Franklin Avenue, and Classon Avenue between Flatbush and Greenpoint. Originally the Lorimer Street streetcar line, it is now a bus rou ...

Lutheran Cemetery Line Lutheranism is one of the largest branches of Protestantism, identifying primarily with the theology of Martin Luther, the 16th-century German monk and Protestant Reformers, reformer whose efforts to reform the theology and practice of the Cathol ...

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* Manhattan and Nassau Avenues Line *

Meeker Avenue Line The Meeker and Marcy Avenues Line was a public transit line in Brooklyn, New York City New York, often called New York City or NYC, is the most populous city in the United States. With a 2020 population of 8,804,190 ...

* Meeker Street Line * Metropolitan Avenue Line * Montague Street Line * Myrtle Avenue Line

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* Nassau Avenue Line * Nostrand Avenue Line

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* Putnam Avenue Line * Putnam Avenue and Halsey Street Line

R

Reid Avenue Line The B46 bus route constitutes a public transit corridor in Brooklyn, New York City. The route runs primarily along Utica Avenue north from the Kings Plaza shopping center through Eastern Brooklyn, with continued service west along Broadway (Bro ...

Ralph Avenue Line The B47 is a surface transit line on Ralph Avenue in Brooklyn, New York City. Once a streetcar line, it is now part of the B47 bus route, operated by the New York City Transit Authority, Prior to 1995, it was the B78 route; the northern part of ...

* Richmond Hill and Jamaica Line * Ridgewood Line

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Sea Beach Line The BMT Sea Beach Line is a rapid transit line of the BMT division of the New York City Subway, connecting the BMT Fourth Avenue Line at 59th Street via a four-track wide open cut to Coney Island in Brooklyn. It has at times hosted the faste ...

to Coney Island * Second Avenue Line * Sumner Avenue Line

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* Third Avenue Line to Fort Hamilton and Bensonhurst *

Tompkins Avenue Line 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 Tompk ...

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* Union Avenue Line * Utica Avenue Line The railroad also partially owned the Bridge Operating Company, a line across the

Williamsburg Bridge The Williamsburg Bridge is a suspension bridge in New York City across the East River connecting the Lower East Side of Manhattan at Delancey Street with the Williamsburg neighborhood of Brooklyn at Broadway near the Brooklyn-Queens Expressway ...

that was also owned by

New York Railways The New York Railways Company operated street railways in Manhattan, New York City, United States between 1911 and 1925. The company went into receivership in 1919 and control was passed to the New York Railways Corporation in 1925 after which a ...

References

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