| Sumner Avenue Line And New Lots Avenue Line |
Article Index for Sumner |
Website Links For Sumner |
Information AboutSumner Avenue Line And New Lots Avenue Line |
| CATEGORIES ABOUT SUMNER AVENUE LINE AND NEW LOTS AVENUE LINE | |
| streetcar lines in brooklyn | |
|
HISTORY OF THE SUMNER AVENUE LINE The Yates Avenue and Flatbush Railroad was organized in 1881 to build a branch of the Broadway Railroad , beginning at Broadway and Yates Avenue (present-day Marcus Garvey Boulevard) in Bedford-Stuyvesant , continuing south on Yates to Fulton Street , then east on Fulton, where it ran over the Brooklyn City Rail Road 's Fulton Street Line , to Troy Avenue, where it continued south on Troy to end at Bergen Street. Brooklyn Daily Eagle , A New Street Railroad, March 13 , 1881 , page 4 The Broadway Railroad leased the line on December 31 , 1881 Brooklyn Daily Eagle , Railroad Bills, March 8 , 1883 , page 4. The Brooklyn, Queens County And Suburban Railroad , owned by the Long Island Traction Company (later the Brooklyn Rapid Transit Company ), leased the Broadway Railroad in early 1894, and the line was Electrified in late October. Brooklyn Daily Eagle , Real Estate Market, October 24 , 1894 , page 14 After the Nassau Electric Railroad , which owned the Bergen Street Line, was leased to the Brooklyn Heights Railroad (another BRT property) in 1899, Sumner Avenue cars were extended south/east along the Bergen Street, Saint Johns Place , and Ralph Avenue lines to Brownsville and west along the Bergen Street Line to Hamilton Ferry in Red Hook . Buses were substituted for most streetcar service on July 20 , 1947 with direct Bedford-Stuyvesant-Red Hook service unreplaced. B15 BUS ROUTE When the New Lots Avenue Line was converted to buses in 1941, it was assigned the B10 designation, running from the Terminal 4 in Queens . Route description The B15 bus route runs between the Woodhull Medical And Mental Health Center and Flushing Avenue () subway station in Bedford-Stuyvesant and the Brooklyn General Mail Facility in Spring Creek or John F. Kennedy International Airport's Terminal 4 in Queens with the two branches combined during the late nights using the following route (from North to South):
-Brooklyn General Mail Facility branch splits at Linden Boulevard and Eldert Lane-
Brooklyn General Mail Facility branch beginning at Linden Boulevard and Eldert Lane:
REFERENCES |
|
|