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From 1898 to 1950, various companies operated local
Brooklyn Bridge, 1883-1933
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On January 26, 1908, Brooklyn Bridge Local trolley service between the two ends of the bridge was introduced. The cable cars of the New York and Brooklyn Bridge Railway, on whose tracks the
From 1898 to 1950, various companies operated local trolley line
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s over the Brooklyn Bridge, taking passengers from many points in Brooklyn
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and Queens
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, New York City
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, United States
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to the Park Row terminal in Lower Manhattan. These lines entered the bridge roadway from Fulton Street or Sands Street in Downtown Brooklyn
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, some of them using elevated trackage at the Sands Street elevated railway
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station.
History
Initially, all lines reached the bridge by way of the Brooklyn Heights Railroad's Graham Avenue Line tracks in Sands Street. Cars could enter Sands Street to the west at Fulton Street (many Brooklyn Heights lines) or to the east at Washington Street (Coney Island and Brooklyn Railroad
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's DeKalb Avenue Line
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) or Adams Street (Nassau Electric Railroad
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The company wa ...
's Adams Street and Boerum Place Line). From Washington Street, tracks ran east on High Street to the CI&B's Smith Street Line, Concord Street on the Nassau Electric's Park Avenue Line and Vanderbilt Avenue Line
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, and Myrtle Avenue on the Brooklyn Heights's Myrtle Avenue Line. The first line across the bridge was the Graham Avenue Line, a minor line approaching downtown from the east on Sands Street. This line was chosen because of its half-hour headway, and its cars began crossing the bridge on January 23, 1898.
A new elevated trolley line on the Brooklyn end of the bridge opened on September 28, 1908, taking trolleys bound for Fulton Street through the Sands Street station of the elevated railway
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s and underneath the connection to the Fulton Street Elevated
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. This eliminated congestion caused by the crossing of the bridge-bound cars from Fulton Street and the Brooklyn-bound cars to eastbound Sands Street. The Court Street Line
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, Flatbush Avenue Line, Fulton Street Line, Gates Avenue Line, Myrtle Avenue Line, Putnam Avenue Line, and Union Street Line
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were moved to this route.Brian J. Cudahy, How We Got to Coney Island: Development of Mass Transportation in Brooklyn and Kings County, pages 221 to 222New York Department of Plant and Structures
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Brooklyn Bridge, 1883-1933
also at Google Books
On January 26, 1908, Brooklyn Bridge Local trolley service between the two ends of the bridge was introduced. The cable cars of the New York and Brooklyn Bridge Railway, on whose tracks the
Brooklyn Rapid Transit Company
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was providing through elevated railway
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service, were discontinued the next day. Local trolley service ended in 1950.
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