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 , a short cable car line connecting the with downtown Brooklyn along . Eliphalet Williams Bliss owned the railroad.^[2]

Controlled lines[]

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

B[]

• to Ulmer Park
• Brighton Beach Line
• Broadway Line
• Bushwick Avenue Line

C[]

• Crosstown Line

E[]

• East New York Line

F[]

• Flatbush Avenue Line
• Fulton Street Line
• Furman Street Line

G[]

• Gates Avenue Line
• Graham Avenue Line
• Grand Street Line
• Greene and Gates Avenues Line
• Greenpoint Line
• Greenpoint Line

H[]

• Hamilton Avenue Line
• Holy Cross Cemetery Line

J[]

K[]

L[]

• Lorimer Street Line

M[]

• Meeker Avenue Line
• Myrtle Avenue Line

N[]

• Nostrand Avenue Line

P[]

• Putnam Avenue Line
• Putnam Avenue and Halsey Street Line

R[]

• Reid Avenue Line
• Ralph Avenue Line

S[]

• Sea Beach Line to Coney Island
• Sumner Avenue Line

T[]

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

U[]

• Union Avenue Line
• Utica Avenue Line

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

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