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On June 1st, 1999, on the very first ForgottenTour, I stumbled across some remains of a long-dead trolley line on a piece of Johnson Avenue that doesn’t even show up on…
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What are those railroad tracks doing running between Shell Road and West 6th Street, in Brighton Beach, Brooklyn, just south of the Belt Parkway? They’re actually the last remnants of…
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You say that there haven’t been any trolleys on the streets of Brooklyn since the late 1950s? Don’t tell Robert Diamond, the man who discovered the ancient Long Island Railroad…
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Although the trolleys of New York City are no more, many of the cars that appeared on city streets until the mid-1950s can be found at the Shoreline Trolley Museum…
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The trolleys of yore may be gone…but in streets that haven’t been repaved for awhile, ancient trolley tracks point their snouts above the tar and concrete to get a breath…
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Trolley tracks aren’t the only remnants of former trolley lines that are still dotting the city landscape. The poles that carried the electric power supply are still here and there. Many…
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This is the former New York and Queens Railroad Company trolley barn. It was built in 1896 to serve the fledgling NY & QRC, which was formed that year when the…