The Meeker and Marcy Avenues Line was a

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line in

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, running along Marcy Avenue, Metropolitan Avenue, Graham Avenue, and Meeker Avenue from Fulton Street in Bedford-Stuyvesant to Penny Bridge in Williamsburg. The line was owned by the

Grand Street and Newtown Railroad The Grand Street and Newtown Railroad was a street railway company in the U.S. state of New York. The company operated two lines - the Grand Street Line from Williamsburg to Elmhurst and the Meeker Avenue Line from Williamsburg to West Maspet ...

. The line was replaced by the B29 bus on April 17, 1939, and was absorbed into the B24 bus route (formerly the

Calvary Cemetery Line Calvary ( la, Calvariae or ) or Golgotha ( grc-gre, Γολγοθᾶ, ''Golgothâ'') was a site immediately outside Jerusalem's walls where Jesus was said to have been crucified according to the canonical Gospels. Since at least the early mediev ...

) on June 30, 1949.

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{{Brooklyn bus routes B029 B029 Streetcar lines in Brooklyn