I haven’t been down this stretch of Church Avenue in East Flatbush since I was a kid, when my parents and I would take the B35 bus almost all the way out to Brownsville. Previously I had no idea this decommissioned trolley pole was still there at the SW corner of Schenectady Avenue, and this one is the rare bird with a crossbar that held multiple wires. Now I know it’s there because of the magic of Google Street View.
The #8 trolley plied this route, and hung in there until 10/31/56 — the last surviving surface route in Brooklyn!
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