Report

Report
Author: New York Railways Company
Publisher:
Total Pages: 318
Release: 1912
Genre:
ISBN:

Manhattan's Lost Streetcars

Manhattan's Lost Streetcars
Author: Stephen L. Meyers
Publisher: Arcadia Publishing
Total Pages: 132
Release: 2005
Genre: History
ISBN: 9780738538846

By the first quarter of the 20th century, Manhattan had well over 400 miles of streetcar trackage, an investment of several million dollars. Less than 50 years later, the rail system had completely vanished. Manhattan's Lost Streetcars chronicles the finance, political pressures, and advancing technology behind Gotham's streetcar networks from 1890 to 1935. The story ends with the dismantling of the system. Manhattan's Lost Streetcars recalls a bygone era when public rail transportation was aboveground and New Yorkers rode the Metropolitan Street Railway, the Green Lines, the Manhattan Bridge Three Cent Line, and the Brooklyn & North River line, among others. It features images of the independent rail companies and the individual lines that made up a vast public transportation network in Manhattan.

The City Record

The City Record
Author: New York (N.Y.)
Publisher:
Total Pages: 1006
Release: 1877
Genre: New York (N.Y
ISBN: