Talk:List of streetcar lines on Long Island

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File:Aero view of Freeport, Long Island, N.Y. 1909.jpeg shows a line running from Freeport's N. & S. Main Street to Bedell Street to Atlantic Avenue, and then at the east edge of town on Atlantic Avenue is labeled "Electric RR to New York." This does not seem to correspond to any of the lines described here. The New York and Long Island Traction Brooklyn-Freeport line is described as running along Sunrise Highway (which did not yet exist in 1909) rather than Atlantic, but that might be an error, and that might be the line in question. The description of the Jamaica-Hempstead Line says it ran to Freeport, but doesn't mention any street that reaches Freeport, and would presumably go from Hempstead south to Freeport (Atlantic Avenue is east-west). Seashore Municipal Railroad is described as running on Atlantic, but not as getting anywhere near NYC or Brooklyn. - Jmabel | Talk 05:14, 6 February 2018 (UTC)Reply

That section of the line going along North Main Street goes to Hempstead. Also didn't Sunrise Highway replace some local streets in Freeport? -------User:DanTD (talk) 18:43, 9 December 2023 (UTC)Reply

New York and North Shore Traction edit

Images from NYC archives edit

See: "Search Results: All Fields similar to 'Alley and Creek and Bridge and Little and Neck' - NYC Municipal Archives". nycma.lunaimaging.com. Retrieved 2020-04-02.

which has images from 1925 (when the bridge was apparently fixed in the open position) and 1926.

I was lead to these images by a Facebook post : "Tommy Byrne". www.facebook.com. Retrieved 2020-04-02. Old New York & North Shore Traction Co Trolley bridge abandoned in up position & Little Neck Bridge over Alley Creek at Northern Blvd on the right between Bayside & Douglaston 5/22/1925

Story of Mayor Hylan vs. NY&NYS Traction edit

The book referred following by Al Beller to seems to be Google Books brand search for Vincent Seyfried New York and Long Island Traction Hylan North Shore

Seyfried, Vincent F. (1956). New York & North Shore Traction Company: trolleys in Whitestone, Flushing, Bayside, Roslyn, Pt. Washington, Mineola, Hicksville. F. E. Reifschneider.

From this Facebook post: [1]

You should add this info to North Shore Bus Company#Origin: New York and North Shore Traction Company. ---------User:DanTD (talk) 15:20, 7 August 2021 (UTC)Reply

References

  1. ^ "Al Beller". www.facebook.com. Retrieved 2020-04-02. Many years ago, I learned about the New York and North Shore, 1910-1920, when I ran across a copy of Vincent Seyfried's book in the Queens College library. ..... Because it only existed for 10 years, its even less well known than the NYW&B ...... The line was actually killed in 1920 by a crazed and vindictive Mayor John Hylan, who sent out a fleet of city-owned station wagons and carried people for free along Northern Boulevard. just long enough to destroy the company..... This was because like most other trolley lines, NY and NS needed a fare increase because of post World War inflation; Wages and prices doubled between 1914 and 1920. .... When they were turned down, in desperation, they put donation buckets inside the trolleys, begging passengers for help. . ... When Mayor Hylan heard about that, he became determined to destroy the company, and did it with free transport by city-owned station wagons.