The following streetcar lines once operated in Manhattan, New York City, New York, United States. Lines related to Broadway are listed first, and then the table contains all other lines by their Lower Manhattan trunk (if applicable) from north to south. Lines are listed roughly from east to west. ^ "Lexington Av. Gets Buses Wednesday".

Feb 21, 2021 · An experiment: a “one-step” car in the late 1910s, where the passenger compartment is slung low between the wheel trucks. We can’t see the rails, but there’s no trolley pole up top: That wasn’t the only experiment. The New York State Archives have this 1913 photo of a battery-powered streetcar.

North America's first streetcar lines opened in 1832 from downtown New York City to Harlem by the New York and Harlem Railroad, in 1834 in New Orleans, and in 1849 in Toronto along the Williams Omnibus Bus Line. These streetcars used horses and sometimes mules.

Jan 12, 2023 · Revisit the early days on New York City's public transportation systems and the historic journey of Elizabeth Jennings!

Feb 4, 2016 · Mayor Bill de Blasio is set to announce a plan to build the city’s first streetcars in almost 100 years. Why is it worth bringing back? The wind is shifting in New York, with people traveling...

Apr 6, 2016 · New York City Trolley or Streetcar service ended in New York City on April 6th, 1957 on Welfare (now Roosevelt) Island. But it began one hundred twenty five years earlier on November 14, 1832, with not only New York City but the world’s first streetcar line which ran on the Bowery and Fourth Avenue, between

Apr 13, 2018 · A rare color photo collection from David Pirmann that shows streetcar system in New York from between the 1930s and 1950s.

The Third Avenue Railway System (TARS), founded 1852, was a streetcar system serving the New York City boroughs of Manhattan and the Bronx along with lower Westchester County. For a brief period of time, TARS also operated the Steinway Lines in Long Island City. [1]

On November 14, 1832, the John Mason, a horse-drawn streetcar, began its route between Prince and 14th Streets. Named for the railroad magnate who commissioned it, the new transportation...

Brooklyn had dozens of streetcar lines crisscrossing the borough and crossing the Brooklyn and Williamsburg Bridges into Manhattan, but the PCCs primarily served only three routes: 67-Seventh Ave.; 68-Smith-Coney Island; and 69-McDonald-Vanderbilt.