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]

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

Former streetcar
operators

New York	BRT/BQT LICEC LIRR IRT Second Avenue Railroad Third Avenue Railway Sixth Avenue Railroad Broadway and Seventh Avenue Railway Eighth and Ninth Avenues Railway 14th Street Central Crosstown (17th & 18th Street Lines) 23rd Street 34th Street Crosstown 42nd Street & Grand Street Ferry 86th Street Babylon Railroad Bleecker Street & Fulton Ferry Bridge Operating Company BHRR NYR Brooklyn & North River Brooklyn, Queens County & Suburban Danbury & Harlem Fort George & Eleventh Avenue Grand Street and Newtown Greenpoint and Williamsburgh Hudson Avenue Houston, West Street & Pavonia Ferry Huntington Railroad/Traction Company Jamaica Central Railways Lenox Avenue Long Island Electric Railway Long Island Traction Company Manhattan Bridge 3¢ Manhattan & Queens Traction Nassau Railroad Nassau Electric Railroad New York Railways Company New York & Harlem Railroad New York & Long Island Traction New York & North Shore Traction New York and Queens County Railway New York and Queens Transit Corporation New York Interborough (IRT) Northport Traction Company Ocean Electric Railway Oscar City Railway Ossining Electric Railway Peekskill Lighting and Railroad Pelham Park and City Island Railway Putnam & Westchester Queensboro Bridge Richmond Light & Railroad Staten Island Electric Railroad Staten Island Horse Railroad Staten Island Midland Railway/Railroad Staten Island Traction Company Steinway Railway Suffolk Traction Union Railway (Bronx) Union Railroad (Brooklyn) West Farms & Westchester Westchester Electric Westchester Street Yonkers Railroad
New Jersey	North Hudson County Railway Public Service Coordinated Transport/Transport of New Jersey
Connecticut	Connecticut Company Consolidated Railway Bridgeport Traction Connecticut Railway & Lighting Danbury and Bethel Street Railway Greenwich Tramway Company New York and Stamford Railway

Current operations

New Jersey	Hudson–Bergen Light Rail Newark Light Rail River Line

Proposed operations

New York	Red Hook Staten Island 42nd Street Brooklyn–Queens Waterfront Lower Montauk
New Jersey	HBLR Northern Branch
Connecticut	New Haven

Streetcar lists

New York	Bronx Brooklyn Manhattan Queens Staten Island Long Island Westchester
Nearby states	New Jersey (PSR lines) Connecticut

Other

Carhouses	New York City Bus garages MTA Bus garages Long Island Bus garages
Other	Other New York City transit