Originating on July 2, 1878, the BF&CI ran from the former Bedford Station on the Atlantic Branch of the Long Island Rail Road, to Brighton Beach. Other truncated lines dating back to the same period as the Jamaica and Lexington Els are the Myrtle Avenue and BMT Fulton Street Lines.īoth the BMT Franklin Avenue Line and BMT Brighton Line began as another excursion railroad to Coney Island called the Brooklyn, Flatbush and Coney Island Railway. Similar histories to the BMT West End Line can be found with the BMT Sea Beach Line ( New York and Sea Beach Railroad), and BMT Culver Line ( Prospect Park and Coney Island Railroad).
It was also extended past Cypress Hills towards Jamaica, Queens during that time. The rest of the line from Marcy Avenue to Broadway Junction was rebuilt during the Dual Contracts. Both segments were originally part of the demolished BMT Lexington Avenue Line. That section opened between September 5, 1885, and May 30, 1893. The oldest un-rebuilt section still in use, is from Alabama Avenue to Cypress Hills. That honor goes to the BMT Jamaica Line with the section from Gates Avenue to Van Siclen Avenue to an opening on May 13, 1885. The West End line is not the oldest elevated in Brooklyn. It was later rebuilt under the Dual Contracts, opening as the current elevated road on June 24, 1916. Its right-of-way began passenger service on October 9, 1863, as a surface steam railroad called the Brooklyn, Bath and Coney Island. The oldest right-of-way in the entire subway system is that of the West End Line. The vast majority of current subway lines in Brooklyn trace their lineage back to the Brooklyn–Manhattan Transit (BMT) and Brooklyn Rapid Transit (BRT), as well as earlier predecessors.
All three former systems are present in Brooklyn. Three rapid transit companies merged in 1940 to create the present New York City Subway system: the Interborough Rapid Transit Company (IRT), the Brooklyn–Manhattan Transit Corporation (BMT), and the Independent Subway System (IND). The system's 472 stations qualifies it to have the largest number of rapid transit stations in the world. Operated by the New York City Transit Authority under the Metropolitan Transportation Authority of New York, the New York City Subway is the busiest rapid transit system in the United States and the seventh busiest in the world, with 5.225 million daily riders.
state of New York: the Bronx, Brooklyn, Manhattan, and Queens. The New York City Subway is a rapid transit system that serves four of the five boroughs of New York City in the U.S. The current New York City Transit Authority rail system map Brooklyn is located on the bottom-center portion of the map.
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