APRIL 10, 1837 JUNE 20, 1837
SCHEDULES FROM THE LONG ISLAND STAR :
JULY 31, AND SEPTEMBER 8, 1837 TIME TABLES SHOW DE LANCEY AND PENNSYL-
VANIA AVENUES - AND "CONNECTICUT AVENUE" INSTEAD OF UNION COURSE.
1953 RESEARCH BY EDNA HUNTINGTON, LONG ISLAND HISTORICAL SOCIETY
LIBRARIAN, SHOWED THAT CONNECTICUT AVENUE BECAME WOODHAVEN BLVD.
ACTUALLY IT BECAME FLUSHING AVENUE, TROTTING COURSE LANE,
WOODHAVEN AVENUE AND THEN WOODHAVEN BOULEVARD.
CONNECTICUT AVENUE STATION WAS PROBABLY THE LATER
TROTTING COURSE LANE AND THEN WOODHAVEN STATION
NOVEMBER 27, 1837 SHOWS
BRUSHVILLE INSTEAD OF FLUSHING AVE. - DE LANCY AVE.
GO TO BRUSHVILLE
THIS JUNE 1838 ARTICLE IMPLIES THAT STEAM MAY HAVE PULLED TRAINS BETWEEN HENRY STREET AND BEDFORD PRECEDED BY HORSE DRAWN CARS. OR THE TRAINS WERE PRECEDED BY HORSE DRAWN CARS FOR SOME DISTANCE EAST OF BEDFORD. A REGULAR HORSE CAR SERVICE WAS ESTABLISHED BETWEEN SOUTH FERRY AND BEDFORD. THE LOCOMOTIVES WERE DISGUISED TO RESEMBLE HORSE CARS - DUMMY ENGINES. THIS IS THE FIRST ARRT HAS EVER READ OF THIS ENTIRE OPERATION. |
THE SAME JUNE 1838 NEWSPAPER SHOWS A CHANGE OF SCHEDULE
IN JULY 1839 THE NEW TRACK TO HEMPSTEAD WAS OPENED FROM
HEMPSTEAD BRANCH - LATER MINEOLA - TO A TERMINAL ON MAIN STREET
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THE HEMPSTEAD BRANCH
FROM NOVEMBER 1839 UNTIL JULY 1844 STEAM
PULLED TRAINS BETWEEN HENRY STREET AND JAMAICA.
IN 1884 THE BABYLON SIGNAL INTERVIEWED JOHN ARESON WHO REMEMBERED THIS
ON OCTOBER 14, 1841 THE RAILROAD OPENED TO FARMINGDALE
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go to -----> FARMINGDALE
Go to ----> 1844 ANNUAL REPORT
IN 1853 THERE WAS A STATION AT CANAL STREET JAMAICA
BEDFORD
THIS MAP SHOWS THE PROPERTY OF THE BROOKLYN AND JAMAICA ON BOTH SIDES
OF THEIR RIGHT OF WAY. THIS WAS
THE TERMINUS FOR STEAM 1836 - 1839. BY 1851
ATLANTIC STREET (AVENUE), 70 FEET WIDE, HAD BEEN EXTENDED AS FAR AS CLASSON
AVENUE - IT THEN CURVED AND RAN INTO FULTON AVENUE. (30 FEET OF
THEIR RIGHT
OF WAY HAD BEEN CEDED BY THE BROOKLYN AND JAMAICA.) SINCE THE 1860'S
IT HAS RUN PARALLEL WITH PACIFIC STREET FROM HERE TO EAST NEW YORK.
THIS MAP SHOWS THE PRIVATE RIGHT OF WAY OF THE BROOKLYN
AND JAMAICA BETWEEN SCHUYLER STREET AND HERKIMER STREET.
SCHUYLER STREET WAS WIDENED TO BECOME ATLANTIC AVENUE.
ONE BLOCK OF THE RIGHT OF WAY BETWEEN BEDFORD AVENUE
AND NOSTRAND AVENUE REMAINS TODAY AS HERKIMER PLACE.
AFTER THE RAILROAD WAS EXPELLED AND
ATLANTIC AVENUE WAS EXTENDED TO THE CITY LINE.
Continued on ----> PART TWO:
THE TUNNEL;
SOUTH FERRY, THE TERMINAL AND THE BOATS;
U. S. MAIL SERVICE;
SCENE ALONG THE BROOKLYN & JAMAICA;
UNION COURSE RACE TRACK;
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