List of New York City manhole cover abbreviations

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This is a list of manhole cover markings found in New York City.

• Bell System
• BMT = Brooklyn-Manhattan Transit Corporation
• BPM = Manhattan Borough Monument
• BRT = Brooklyn Rapid Transit
• BSBQ = Bureau of Sewers, Borough of Queens
• CT&ES Co. = Consolidated Telegraph & Electrical Subway Company
• ConEdison = Consolidated Edison
• Con Edison Co. = Consolidated Edison
• DEP = Department of Environmental Protection
• ECS Co. LIM = Empire City Subway Company Limited
• EDISON = Edison
• FDNY = FDNY
• GAS = Brooklyn Union Gas
• HPFS = High Pressure Fire Service
• IRT = Interborough Rapid Transit
• LIC = Long Island City
• NYM = New York Municipal Railway
• NY&QEL&PCo = New York & Queens Electric Light & Power Company
• NYCTS = New York City Transit System
• QMT = Queens Midtown Tunnel
• RTS = Rapid Transit System

References

• Forgotten NY: manhole
• "World Sewer Cover Web site", February, 2001.