Everything about The Bushwick Avenue Line totally explained
The
Bushwick Avenue Line or
Bushwick Line was a
public transit line in
Brooklyn,
New York City,
United States, running mostly along
Bushwick Avenue and
Myrtle Avenue between
Williamsburg and
Ridgewood, Queens.
History
The
Bushwick Railroad opened the line from the
Grand Street Ferry east to their stables on Bushwick Avenue in late May or early June 1868. The line began at the company's office at the intersection of Grand Street and Kent Avenue, and proceeded south on Kent Avenue (
Brooklyn City Rail Road's
Greenpoint Line), east on
Broadway (
Broadway Railroad's
Broadway Line trackage), north on Bedford Avenue, east on South Fourth Street and Meserole Street, and southeast on Bushwick Avenue. The line was soon extended southeast on Bushwick Avenue and east on
Myrtle Avenue to
Myrtle Avenue Park (near Cypress Avenue) in
Ridgewood, Queens. A branch to the
Greenpoint Ferry, through which cars were operated between this ferry and Ridgewood, was opened on
September 18,
1875. This branch split at Graham Avenue, turning north along the
Brooklyn City Rail Road's
Graham Avenue Line. At the end of that line, it turned west on several blocks of new trackage on Driggs Avenue before reaching the
Brooklyn Crosstown Railroad's
Crosstown Line in Manhattan Avenue. There it turned north through Manhattan Avenue to Greenpoint Avenue, turning west there onto new trackage to reach the ferry. An extension was planned south to the
Prospect Park and Coney Island Railroad depot via Graham Avenue, Tompkins Avenue, Brooklyn Avenue, Prospect Place, and Vanderbilt Avenue. This was built somewhat differently as the
Tompkins Avenue Line the next year.
The
Brooklyn City Rail Road extended its
Myrtle Avenue Line east from its former terminus at Broadway to Bushwick Avenue and thence over the Bushwick Railroad's line to Myrtle Avenue Park in August 1879. The BCRR leased the Bushwick Railroad on
July 27,
1888. On
October 18,
1888, the court ruled that the BCRR had no right to operate over the
Brooklyn Crosstown Railroad trackage on Manhattan Avenue, gained through an 1875 agreement between the Bushwick and Crosstown Railroads. The Crosstown owned the
Greenpoint and Calvary Cemetery Railroad, which included the
Calvary Cemetery Line from Greenpoint Ferry to
Calvary Cemetery. The BCRR leased the Crosstown in mid-1889, but didn't restore the Bushwick Avenue branch to the ferry.
Eventually, the
Graham Avenue Line was extended over the trackage on Driggs Avenue, and the Greenpoint Avenue trackage to the
Greenpoint Ferry became part of several lines, including the
Lorimer Street Line,
Union Avenue Line, and
Calvary Cemetery Line.
At some point, westbound traffic to the
Williamsburg Bridge was rerouted to use the
Wilson Avenue Line (Johnson Avenue and
Broadway) to the crossing of Johnson and Bushwick Avenues, and eastbound Wilson Avenue cars were moved to the Bushwick Avenue Line. Streetcars were discontinued on
September 1,
1947.
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