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The Broadway Railroad began running over Broadway, from the Broadway Ferry in Williamsburg to the East New York Depot , on March 22 , 1859 . Brooklyn Daily Eagle , Brooklyn Railroads and Real Estate, March 29 , 1859 , page 2 A short branch to Bushwick , outbound on Hooper Street, South Fifth Street, and Montrose Avenue to Bushwick Avenue, and inbound on Johnson Avenue, was built in late 1860. Brooklyn Daily Eagle , Railroad Extension, November 30 , 1860 , page 2 The Grand Street Ferry was also served by using the Brooklyn City Rail Road 's Greenpoint Line tracks on Kent Avenue.

Buses were substituted for streetcars on January 15 , 1950 .


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