Bob Diamond, who explored and later instituted tours in the long-defunct Atlantic Avenue Tunnel, attempted to reinstitute a trolley line from Red Hook to downtown Brooklyn along Columbia Street in the late 1990s. He acquired several trolley cars from around the country and laid a square block of track along Conover and Reed Streets, long before Red Hook’s late-2000s renaissance. The city pulled its funding and Diamond’s trolley dream foundered. Since then, the trolley cars have sat and rusted behind a warehouse that became a Fairway supermarket in 2006.
BROOKLYN TROLLEY
