History
The history of surface line operation in Brooklyn is long and very complicated, and is best presented under one of the following sub-articles which maintain the proper family tree for each of the lines listed below. These subsidiary articles are:
- BRT/BMT subsidiaries
- Brooklyn and Queens Transit Corporation, the main company after 1929
- Brooklyn City Railroad
- Brooklyn Heights Railroad
- Brooklyn, Queens County and Suburban Railroad
- Coney Island and Brooklyn Railroad
- Coney Island and Gravesend Railway
- Nassau Electric Railroad
- Companies not owned by the BRT/BMT or jointly owned
- Brooklyn and North River Railroad
- Bush Terminal Railroad
- Coney Island, Sheepshead Bay and Ocean Avenue Railroad
- Manhattan Bridge Three Cent Line
- Marine Railway
- Maspeth Railroad and Bridge Company
- Van Brunt Street and Erie Basin Railroad
- This list is incomplete; you can help by expanding it.
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