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B43 BUS ROUTE The present-day B43 route is a combination of the now discontinued '''B47''' (although the route number is still used today for a different service) and '''B62''' routes. The B47 route replaced the Tompkins Avenue Line running between Prospect-Lefferts Gardens and Williamsburg along Empire Boulevard, Kingston Avenue, Tompkins Avenue, and Harrison Avenue, and the B62 route replaced the Graham Avenue line running between Downtown Brooklyn and Greenpoint along , 1995, section 13, page 10] the B47 and B62 were combined to form the present-day B43 route. When the routes were combined, the Harrison Avenue portion of the B47 was removed along with the Flushing Avenue section of the B62. The B43 bus route runs between the Prospect Park subway station at Lincoln Road and Flatbush Avenue in Prospect-Lefferts Gardens and Manhattan Avenue and Box Street in Greenpoint via Manhattan Avenue, Graham Avenue, and Tompkins Avenue. The route serves Prospect Park , the Jewish Children's Museum , Brower Park, the Brooklyn Children's Museum , Restoration Plaza, the Woodhull Medical And Mental Health Center , and McCarren Park . It also connects with the B13 , B15 to JFK Airport , B16 , B24, B25 , B26 , B38 , B41 Limited , B44 Limited , B45 , B46 Limited, B47 , B48 , B49 Limited, B52 , B54 , B57, B60 , B61 , B65 , Q54 , and Q59 bus routes and the following subway stations:
HISTORY OF THE GRAHAM AVENUE LINE The 1872 .3 On April 27 , 1890 , Brooklyn City opened new trackage on Flushing Avenue from Graham Avenue east to Metropolitan Avenue, with the service operating on it becoming the new Flushing Avenue Line,4 and the old Flushing Avenue Line being renamed the Flushing and Graham Avenues Line and afterwards, the Graham Avenue Line. The Graham Avenue Line was later extended north along existing trackage on Driggs Avenue and Manhattan Avenue to Hunters Point . Buses were substituted for streetcars on December 21 , 1948 . REFERENCES |
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