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The New York Railways Company, reorganized into the '''New York Railways Corporation''' in 1925, and also known as the '''Green Lines''', Dave's Electric Railroads: New York Railway ; several photographs show "GREEN LINES" on the side of the cars was a Street Railway in Manhattan , New York City , United States . From 1911 to 1936, when all of its remaining lines were replaced with Bus Routes , New York Railways was the largest street railway in Manhattan. Its primary competitor, the Third Avenue Railway , continued to operate Trolley s until the late 1940s. The bus routes that replaced the New York Railways lines are now operated by the Manhattan And Bronx Surface Transit Operating Authority , a subsidiary of the New York City Transit Authority . HISTORY Consolidation, 1886 to 1907 The first streetcars in Manhattan - and in the world - were the to the Third Avenue Railroad (1870) and the Bleecker Street And Fulton Ferry Railroad to the Twenty-third Street Railway (1876).Harry James Carman, The Street Surface Railway Franchises of New York City , 1919, pp. 204-220 A group of , 1897, p. 171 The Traction Company also began leasing its subsidiaries to each other, starting with the leases to the Houston, West Street and Pavonia Ferry Railroad of the Broadway and Seventh Avenue Railroad ( on November 23 , 1895 and the New York And Harlem Railroad (City Line) on June 11 , 1896 . On September 16 , 1897 , the Metropolitan Traction Company, which had acquired most of Manhattan's street railways, was dissolved, the stock being transferred to the Metropolitan Street Railway. That company signed operating agreements with the Fulton Street Railroad on February 19 , 1896 and the Thirty-fourth Street Crosstown Railway (which had been formed in March 1896 by a merger of the Thirty-fourth Street and Eleventh Avenue Railroad with its lessor, the Thirty-fourth Street Railroad ) on December 21 , 1896 , and acquired a lease on the Second Avenue Railroad on January 28 , 1898 .Metropolitan Street Railway Company, Metropolitan Street Railway Company Mortgage and Deed of Trust , 1902 Interborough Finance, Present and Future , published by Van Emburgh & Atterbury, 1917, pp. 9, 22-25 See Also: Third Avenue Railroad The only remaining company was the Third Avenue Railroad, which had built up its own system through ownership and leases. Among the company's lines were two crosstown lines on 42nd Street and 125th Street, two north-south lines on Third Avenue and Broadway, the entire street railway network of , 1900, pp. 2, 178 and leased it on April 13 . With this acquisition, the Metropolitan had complete control of the street railways of Manhattan and the Bronx. The Interurban Street Railway Company was incorporated on , 1908, p. 237-244 The New York City Interborough Railway began operating street railways in the Bronx and Upper Manhattan on May 31 , 1906 , feeding the stations of the Interborough Rapid Transit Company , which controlled it. Prior to this, in January 1906, the Interborough and Metropolitan agreed to consolidate their holdings, and the Interborough-Metropolitan Company was incorporated on January 24 and acquired a majority of the stock of the Interborough Rapid Transit Company, Metropolitan Street Railway, and Metropolitan Securities Company. The Panic Of 1907 toppled the system, and on September 24 , 1907 the New York City Railway entered Receivership . Separation, reorganization, and abandonment, 1907 to 1936 The New York City Railway's leases and operating agreements were canceled and their properties were turned over to the receivers of the subsidiaries in 1908: the , 1911 , page 12 The New York Railways Company entered , 1920 , page 15 The New York Railways Corporation took over operations from the receiver on , 1927 , page 1 and was bought by the Fifth Avenue Coach Company. The New York and Harlem's lines were leased again in 1932. The conversion of the New York Railways lines to buses (built by , The Bulletin , Vol. 49, No. 5, May 2006
Due to a stockholders' lawsuit, the company had to operate a single trolley trip on each line until early June 1936 to retain the , 1935 , page 17 LIST OF LINES The following lines were operated by New York Railways in or after 1911. For earlier lines operated by its predecessors, see List Of Streetcar Lines In Manhattan , List Of Streetcar Lines In The Bronx , and List Of Streetcar Lines In Westchester County, New York . ;North-south lines
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