Hicks Street Line
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The Hicks Street Line was a
Greenwood Cemetery to the Brooklyn Bridge
.
History
When the
Atlantic Avenue, in November 1888.[3][4] The line began operations in late May or early June 1889, and ran along the existing 15th Street Line from the Ninth Avenue Depot of the Culver Line, through Ninth Avenue, 15th Street, and Hamilton Avenue, then onto the new trackage on Hicks Street, and along Atlantic Avenue and the Adams Street and Boerum Place Line to the Brooklyn end of the Brooklyn Bridge.[5] Hoyt and Sackett Streets Line cars, which had passed through Hoyt Street between Sackett Street and Atlantic Avenue, were rerouted to use Hicks Street.[citation needed
]
Eventually the line stopped operating, and the only cars to use Hicks Street were those on an alternate routing of the
Crosstown Line, using Hicks Street instead of Columbia Street.[citation needed] This alternate route ended in 1921.[citation needed
]
References
- Brooklyn Daily Eagle. Brooklyn, NY. 12 March 1874. p. 2.
- Brooklyn Daily Eagle, A Big Lease, December 21, 1885, page 4
- Brooklyn Daily Eagle. Brooklyn, NY. 11 November 1888. p. 8.
- Brooklyn Daily Eagle. Brooklyn, NY. 12 December 1888. p. 6.
- Brooklyn Daily Eagle. Brooklyn, NY. 3 June 1889. p. 1.