Brooklyn Heights Railroad

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]

A Brooklyn Heights Railroad tower car from 1891.

Controlled lines

According to articles in the Brooklyn Daily Eagle, BHRR included the following lines between 1895 and 1899:

B

  • 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

C

  • Calvary Cemetery Line
  • Corona Line
  • Court Street Line
  • Crosstown Line
  • Coney Island and Brighton Beach Line
  • Cypress Hills Line
  • Cypress Hills Extension

E

  • East New York Line

F

  • Flatbush Avenue Line
  • Flushing Avenue Line
  • Forest Park Line
  • Fort Hamilton Line
  • Fresh Pond Line
  • Fulton Street Line
  • Furman Street Line

G

H

J

  • Jamaica Line

K

  • Kingston Avenue Line

L

  • Lorimer Street Line
  • Lutheran Cemetery Line

M

  • Manhattan and Nassau Avenues Line
  • Meeker Avenue Line
  • Meeker Street Line
  • Metropolitan Avenue Line
  • Montague Street Line
  • Myrtle Avenue Line

N

  • Nassau Avenue Line
  • Nostrand Avenue Line

P

  • Putnam Avenue Line
  • Putnam Avenue and Halsey Street Line

R

  • Reid Avenue Line
  • Ralph Avenue Line
  • Richmond Hill and Jamaica Line
  • Ridgewood Line

S

  • Sea Beach Line to Coney Island
  • Second Avenue Line
  • Sumner Avenue Line

T

  • Third Avenue Line to Fort Hamilton and Bensonhurst
  • Tompkins Avenue Line

U


The railroad also partially owned the Bridge Operating Company, a line across the Williamsburg Bridge that was also owned by New York Railways.

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References

  1. Homer Fink, Heights History: Brooklyn Heights Railroad, Brooklyn Heights Blog, USA, September 27, 2006.
  2. Lords of Owls Head brownstoner.com


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