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HISTORY The route on Hamilton Avenue was not one of the original Franchise s granted to the Brooklyn City Rail Road in 1853, Brooklyn Daily Eagle , City Railroads - Report of the Railroad Committee, December 20 , 1853 , page 2 but was added soon after. The portion south of Court Street , which was one of the original routes, opened on September 4 , 1854 as part of the Court Street Line to Greenwood Cemetery , Brooklyn Daily Eagle , Brooklyn City Railroad, September 4 , 1854 , page 2 and the rest opened in early June 1855, at first operated as a shuttle between the ferry and Court Street. Brooklyn Daily Eagle , The Railroad Co. and the Grumblers, June 8 , 1855 , page 2 Eventually the route was operated along Third Avenue south to the 65th Street Depot in Bay Ridge as the 33 Hamilton line. Buses were substituted for streetcars on March 29 , 1942 , and the 33 designation was kept, but the route instead ran southeast from the end of Hamilton Avenue along Prospect Avenue to Prospect Park , and around the south side of the park on a route once followed by the Franklin Avenue Line and Lorimer Street Line , ending east of the park at Prospect-Lefferts Gardens . 1969 Brooklyn and Staten Island bus map The route is no longer operated. REFERENCES |
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