Atlantic Avenue Railroad

Atlantic Avenue Railroad

The Atlantic Avenue Railroad was a railroad company is the U.S. state of New York, with a main line connecting downtown Brooklyn with Jamaica along Atlantic Avenue. It was largely a streetcar company that operated its own trains, but the Long Island Rail Road operated both streetcars and steam trains over its main line, now the Atlantic Branch of the LIRR. It later became part of the Nassau Electric Railroad.

History

The Brooklyn and Jamaica Railroad was the first railroad on Long Island, incorporated on April 25, 1832 to build from the East River in Brooklyn to Jamaica. [PDFlink| [http://www.prrths.com/Hagley/PRR1832%20June%2004.wd.pdf PRR Chronology, 1832] |77.1 KiB , June 2004 Edition] The Long Island Rail Road was chartered in 1834 to extend the line east to Greenport. [PDFlink| [http://www.prrths.com/Hagley/PRR1834%20June%2004.wd.pdf PRR Chronology, 1834] |79.7 KiB , June 2004 Edition] When the Brooklyn and Jamaica was completed on April 18, 1836, its line was operated by the LIRR under lease. The original line ran from South Ferry on the Brooklyn waterfront east to a depot at the current 158th Street in Jamaica, with a ferry connection to lower Manhattan at South Ferry. [PDFlink| [http://www.prrths.com/Hagley/PRR1836%20June%2004.wd.pdf PRR Chronology, 1836] |93.3 KiB , June 2004 Edition] [ [http://arrts-arrchives.com/atlaverr2.html Arrt's Arrchives, Brooklyn & Jamaica Rail Road, Atlantic Avenue Railroad 2] ]

The Brooklyn Central Railroad was incorporated August 31, 1859 to take over the Brooklyn and Jamaica Railroad, then operated by the Long Island Rail Road as a steam-powered line, for a horse car service once the LIRR completed their new line to Long Island City. This happened soon after the LIRR was authorized to abandon service through the Cobble Hill Tunnel to South Ferry in Brooklyn in exchange for ending steam power in the Brooklyn city limits.PDFlink| [http://www.prrths.com/Hagley/PRR1859%20Mar%2005.pdf PRR Chronology, 1859] |60.9 KiB , March 2005 Edition] The city authorized them on June 6 to lay tracks on Atlantic Avenue west of Boerum Place (where the Brooklyn and Jamaica passed through the Cobble Hill Tunnel); east of there, they would use the Brooklyn and Jamaica trackage. They were also granted on November 28, 1859 the right to build along Furman Street from Atlantic Avenue north to Old Fulton Street, connecting the South Ferry (Atlantic Avenue) to the Wall Street Ferry (Montague Street) and Fulton Ferry (Old Fulton Street). The Brooklyn Central Railroad and Brooklyn and Jamaica Railroad merged on August 8, 1860PDFlink| [http://www.prrths.com/Hagley/PRR1860%20June%2004.wd.pdf PRR Chronology, 1860] |91.7 KiB , May 2004 Edition] to form the Brooklyn Central and Jamaica Railroad. The company also opened a line from Atlantic Avenue south on Flatbush Avenue and Fifth Avenue to 37th Street at Greenwood, with a branch east along Third Street to the city line .Henry Stiles, [http://www.panix.com/~cassidy/stilesv3/v3part2/569.html A History of the City of Brooklyn, Volume 3: Part II, Rail Roads and Plank Roads] , 1867] The LIRR ended steam service on Atlantic Avenue on September 30, 1861.PDFlink| [http://www.prrths.com/Hagley/PRR1861%20June%2004.wd.pdf PRR Chronology, 1861] |176 KiB , May 2004 Edition]

The Atlantic Avenue line became the Brooklyn and Jamaica Railway in 1866 and the Atlantic Avenue Railroad in 1872.Felix Reifschneider, [http://www.thethirdrail.net/0103/reif1.html History of the Long Island Railroad] , 1925, reprinted winter 2001 in "The Third Rail"]

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