New York and Long Island Traction Company

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For the predecessor to the Brooklyn subways, see Long Island Traction Company.

The New York and Long Island Traction Company was a street railway company in Queens and Nassau County, New York, United States.[1] It was partially owned by a holding company for the Long Island Rail Road and partially by the Interborough Rapid Transit Company.[2][3] The company operated from New York City east to Freeport,[1] Hempstead,[1] and Mineola.[4]

Lines[edit]

The railroad had two main lines.

Mineola Line[edit]

The Mineola Line (now the Nassau Inter-County Express n24 bus route) spanned from Queens Village to Mineola (in Nassau County) along Jamaica Avenue.

Brooklyn-Freeport Line[edit]

The Brooklyn-Freeport Line spanned from Brooklyn to Freeport (also in Nassau County) and ran mostly along Rockaway Boulevard, North Conduit Avenue, Atlantic Avenue and Merrick Road. The 17-mile (27 km) route[5] was mostly replaced by the Q7 and Q85 (operated by MTA Regional Bus Operations) and n4 (operated by Nassau Inter-County Express).

References[edit]

  1. ^ a b c Bleyer, Bill. "Freeport: Action on the Nautical Mile". Newsday. Archived from the original on 2009-06-20. Retrieved 2008-11-14.
  2. ^ "Belmont and Peters Buy Queens Trolleys". The New York Times. June 21, 1905. p. 14. Retrieved 2011-12-18.
  3. ^ "Company Profile". Jamaica Buses, Inc. Archived from the original on 2006-01-25.
  4. ^ Meyers, Stephen L. (2006). Lost Trolleys of Queens and Long Island. Images of Rail. Charleston, SC: Arcadia Publishing. ISBN 0-7385-4526-0.
  5. ^ Transit Journal (Volume 24 ed.). 1904. p. 932. Retrieved 26 February 2017.
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