Brooklyn Heights Railroad

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]

A Brooklyn Heights Railroad tower car from 1891.

Controlled lines

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

B

• 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

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

E

• East New York Line

F

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

G

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

H

• Hamilton Avenue Line
• Holy Cross Cemetery Line

J

• Jamaica Line

K

• Kingston Avenue Line

L

• Lorimer Street Line
• Lutheran Cemetery Line

M

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

N

• Nassau Avenue Line
• Nostrand Avenue Line

P

• Putnam Avenue Line
• Putnam Avenue and Halsey Street Line

R

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

S

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

T

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

U

• 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

1. Homer Fink, Heights History: Brooklyn Heights Railroad, Brooklyn Heights Blog, USA, September 27, 2006.
2. Lords of Owls Head brownstoner.com