The Hicks Street Line was a

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line in

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, running from the Ninth Avenue Depot at Greenwood Cemetery to the

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History

When the

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chartered the

Greenwood and Coney Island Railroad The Culver Line, Gravesend Avenue Line, or McDonald Avenue Line was a surface public transit line in Brooklyn, New York City, United States, running along McDonald Avenue and built by the Prospect Park and Coney Island Railroad. Most of its main l ...

in 1874, its lines included Hicks Street from Hamilton Avenue to Fulton Street near Fulton Ferry. The

Atlantic Avenue Railroad The Atlantic Avenue Railroad was a company in the U.S. state of New York, with a main line connecting downtown Brooklyn with Jamaica along Atlantic Avenue. It was largely a streetcar company that operated its own trains, but the Long Island Rai ...

acquired the right to build this line through a January 1, 1886 lease of the

Prospect Park and Coney Island Railroad The Culver Line, Gravesend Avenue Line, or McDonald Avenue Line was a surface public transit line in Brooklyn, New York City, United States, running along McDonald Avenue and built by the Prospect Park and Coney Island Railroad. Most of its main l ...

's (Culver Line's) horse railroad properties. Construction began on the line in Hicks Street, only built between the 15th Street Line in Hamilton Avenue and the company's trackage in Atlantic Avenue, in November 1888. The line began operations in late May or early June 1889, and ran along the existing 15th Street Line from the Ninth Avenue Depot of the Culver Line, through Ninth Avenue, 15th Street, and Hamilton Avenue, then onto the new trackage on Hicks Street, and along Atlantic Avenue and the Adams Street and Boerum Place Line to the Brooklyn end of the

. Hoyt and Sackett Streets Line cars, which had passed through Hoyt Street between Sackett Street and Atlantic Avenue, were rerouted to use Hicks Street. Eventually the line stopped operating, and the only cars to use Hicks Street were those on an alternate routing of the Crosstown Line, using Hicks Street instead of Columbia Street. This alternate route ended in 1921.

References

{{Brooklyn streetcar lines Streetcar lines in Brooklyn Defunct public transport operators in the United States Defunct New York (state) railroads Predecessors of the Brooklyn–Manhattan Transit Corporation