The Hudson Avenue Line was a
horse car
A horsecar, horse-drawn tram, horse-drawn streetcar (U.S.), or horse-drawn railway (historical), is an animal-powered (usually horse) tram or streetcar.
Summary
The horse-drawn tram (horsecar) was an early form of public rail transport, wh ...
street railway
A tram (called a streetcar or trolley in North America) is a rail vehicle that travels on tramway tracks on public urban streets; some include segments on segregated right-of-way. The tramlines or networks operated as public transport are ...
line in
Brooklyn,
New York City,
United States, running mostly along
Hudson Avenue in
Vinegar Hill
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, near
Downtown Brooklyn. It was short-lived, operating only from 1867 to 1871, but its
trackage rights over the
Brooklyn City Rail Road allowed 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 ...
to operate
South Ferry-
Prospect Park cars for many years.
History
The Hudson Avenue Railroad opened the line in late 1867, from the
Hudson Avenue Ferry to
Gouverneur Slip in
Manhattan south along Hudson Avenue and the
Brooklyn City Rail Road's
Flatbush Avenue Line trackage
[ Brooklyn Daily Eagle, About City Railroads, June 24, 1869, page 2] on
Flatbush Avenue to
Ninth Avenue at
Prospect Park. The ferry stopped running in early June 1868, and the company asked the
Common Council to lay track in
John Street and
Bridge Street to the
Bridge Street Ferry
The Bridge Street Ferry was a ferry route connecting Manhattan and Williamsburg, Brooklyn, New York City, United States, joining James Slip (Manhattan) and Bridge Street (Brooklyn) across the East River.
History
The ferry was established by the ...
to
James Slip
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* James (surname), various people with the last name James
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* King James (disambiguat ...
in Manhattan.
Consent was given later that month, and the new line was opened by August 18, 1868. However, this did not draw enough traffic from the Bridge Street Ferry to turn a profit, and it shut down for the winter. In mid-1869, the
Brooklyn and Jamaica Railway (
Atlantic Avenue Line) leased the Hudson Avenue Railroad,
in part to use its Brooklyn City Rail Road
trackage rights to reach Prospect Park from
South Ferry; cars to the Bridge Street Ferry began operating again in August. The track was removed by the city in 1871 to build a
sewer, and was never relaid.
[ Brooklyn Daily Eagle, The Hudson Avenue Railroad, July 3, 1872, page 2]
References
{{Brooklyn streetcar lines
Streetcar lines in Brooklyn
Horse-drawn railways
1867 establishments in New York (state)
Railway companies established in 1867
Railway companies disestablished in 1871