Forgotten New York

#58 TROLLEY

The #58 trolley, the Ridgewood-Flushing Line, ended service on 7/17/1949, but here on 60th Place and Kleupfel Court (near 67th Avenue) it’s like it never left. In Ridgewood, the line had its own right of way under the el train bound for Metropolitan Avenue (this is the Nassau Street line in Manhattan, Broadway Line in Brooklyn).

The #58 followed roughly the same route as today’s Q58 bus, with the exception being that the trolley followed a brick-paved route called Strong’s Causeway through Flushing Meadows; today, the Q58 bus uses the service road of the Long Island Expressway.

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