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A Brooklyn Heights Railroad tower car from 1891.
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
F
- Flatbush Avenue Line
 - Flushing Avenue Line
 - Forest Park Line
 - Fort Hamilton Line
 - Fresh Pond Line
 - Fulton Street Line
 - Furman Street Line
 
G
H
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
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
The railroad also partially owned the Bridge Operating Company, a line across the Williamsburg Bridge that was also owned by New York Railways.
References
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- ↑ Homer Fink, Heights History: Brooklyn Heights Railroad, Brooklyn Heights Blog, USA, September 27, 2006.
 - ↑ Lords of Owls Head brownstoner.com
 
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