Brooklyn Heights Railroad - Wikipedia
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The Brooklyn Heights Railroad was a street railway company in the U.S. state of New York.[1] It leased and operated the streetcar lines of the Brooklyn Rapid Transit Company, but started out with the Montague Street Line, a short cable car line connecting the Wall Street Ferry with downtown Brooklyn along Montague Street. Eliphalet Williams Bliss owned the railroad.[2]
According to articles in the Brooklyn Daily Eagle, BHRR included the following lines between 1895 and 1899:
- Bay Ridge Line
- Bath Beach and Bensonhurst Line to Ulmer Park
- Brighton Beach Line
- Bergen Beach Line
- Bowery Bay Line
- Broadway Line
- Broadway and Jamaica Avenue Line
- Brooklyn Hills Line
- Bushwick-Meeker Line
- Bushwick Avenue Line
- Calvary Cemetery Line
- Corona Line
- Court Street Line
- Crosstown Line
- Coney Island and Brighton Beach Line
- Cypress Hills Line
- Cypress Hills Extension
- Flatbush Avenue Line
- Flushing Avenue Line
- Forest Park Line
- Fort Hamilton Line
- Fresh Pond Line
- Fulton Street Line
- Furman Street Line
- Gates Avenue Line
- Glendale Line
- Graham Avenue Line
- Grand Street Line
- Greene and Gates Avenues Line
- Greenpoint Line
- Greenpoint Line
- Manhattan and Nassau Avenues Line
- Meeker Avenue Line
- Meeker Street Line
- Metropolitan Avenue Line
- Montague Street Line
- Myrtle Avenue Line
- Sea Beach Line to Coney Island
- Second Avenue Line
- Sumner Avenue Line
- Third Avenue Line to Fort Hamilton and Bensonhurst
- Tompkins Avenue Line
The railroad also partially owned the Bridge Operating Company, a line across the Williamsburg Bridge that was also owned by New York Railways.
- ^ Homer Fink, Heights History: Brooklyn Heights Railroad, Brooklyn Heights Blog, USA, September 27, 2006.
- ^ Lords of Owls Head brownstoner.com
