By GARY FONVILLE
Forgotten NY correspondent
I had great pleasure in doing two entries concerning trolley tracks that were breaking through many levels of asphalt that made them seemingly disappear from NYC’s streets. You can find them by looking for TROLLEY TRACES and MORE TROLLEY TRACKS. I was sitting in my car recently on the north side of Fulton Street, between Vanderbilt Avenue and Clinton Avenue in Clinton Hill when I happened to see a trolley rail trying to free itself from its asphalt tomb.
These tracks have been buried since August, 1941, when trolleys (streetcars) were substituted by bus service. That’s a different story for a different time. Currently this stretch of Fulton Street is serviced by the B25 bus, which runs from Broadway Junction in East New York, Brooklyn, all the way to Fulton Ferry, near the Brooklyn Bridge in Dumbo, Brooklyn.
4/28/16