![]() ![]() The Ocean Electric Railway operated on The Rockaways. Jackson Avenue, 31st Street, Newtown Avenue, and Astoria Boulevard Jackson Avenue, Northern Boulevard, Steinway Street, and 19th Avenue In the Fall of 1939 the company was renamed as Steinway Omnibus and began operating bus lines over former trolley lines and in 1959 changed their name again to Steinway Transit. The Steinway Railway operated in northwestern Queens. Long Island City Steinway Railway Company c 1894 In 1932 it was reorganized as the New York and Queens Transit Corporation, and ended trolley service as it evolved into the Queens-Nassau Transit Lines in 1937.ġ64th Street, 45th Avenue, and Bowne Streetģ7th Avenue, 61st Street, Woodside Avenue, Broadway, 43rd Avenue, and private right-of-way The New York and Queens County Railway operated in northern Queens. Rockaway Boulevard, North Conduit Avenue, and Sunrise HighwayĪbandoned Apparts of line replaced by Q7, Q85, n4 buses Jamaica ( Long Island Electric Railway terminates at the Queens-Nassau Line)ġ60th Street Jamaica to Belmont Park on 160th Street, Jamaica Avenue, and Hempstead Avenue (Turnpike) The New York and Long Island Traction Company operated east to Freeport, Hempstead, and Mineola in Nassau County. Before reorganizing itself as M&QT, it operated a line across the Queensboro Bridge from Manhattan to Long Island City until April 1937. The Manhattan and Queens Traction Company was originally part of the South Shore Traction Company based in Sayville, New York, which planned to build lines throughout Central and Western Suffolk, as well as Nassau and Queens County, before selling off its only lines to the Suffolk Traction Company, and moving to New York City. Brewer Boulevard, Rockaway Boulevard, Mott Avenue, Wanser Avenue, and the Long Island Rail Road's Far Rockaway Branch Nassau County towards Hempstead (became NY&LI at the city line) These lines were later operated by Jamaica Central Railways, until the company reorganized as Jamaica Buses, with bus service replacing trolley service in 1933. The Long Island Electric Railway operated lines in eastern Queens until 1926. Opened by the Bushwick Railroad on May 26, 1878 Opened by the East New York and Jamaica Railroad on May 7, 1863įresh Pond Road, Grand Avenue, and Corona Avenueīuilt by the Grand Street and Newtown Railroad in 1876 ![]() Only the ones that significantly entered Queens are shown here see list of streetcar lines in Brooklyn for the others (mainly into Ridgewood).īuilt by the Broadway Ferry and Metropolitan Avenue Railroad? The Brooklyn-Manhattan Transit Corporation concentrated on Brooklyn, but had some lines into Queens. The following streetcar lines once operated in Queens, New York City, United States. This list is incomplete you can help by adding missing items. ![]()
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