Brooklyn Heights Railroad

A Brooklyn Heights Railroad tower car from 1891.

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]

## Controlled lines

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

### B

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* 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

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

### E

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* East New York Line

### F

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

### G

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* Gates Avenue Line
* Glendale Line
* Graham Avenue Line
* Grand Street Line
* Greene and Gates Avenues Line
* Greenpoint Line
* Greenpoint Line

### H

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* Hamilton Avenue Line
* Holy Cross Cemetery Line

### J

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* Jamaica Line

### K

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* Kingston Avenue Line

### L

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* Lorimer Street Line
* Lutheran Cemetery Line

### M

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

### N

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* Nassau Avenue Line
* Nostrand Avenue Line

### P

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* Putnam Avenue Line
* Putnam Avenue and Halsey Street Line

### R

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

### S

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

### T

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

### U

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* Union Avenue Line
* Utica 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.

## References

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* Railways portal

Wikimedia Commons has media related to Brooklyn Heights Railroad Co..

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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