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The Brooklyn and Queens Transit Corporation (B&QT) was a subsidiary of the Brooklyn–Manhattan Transit Corporation that operated streetcars in Brooklyn and Queens, New York City, United States (as well as into Manhattan via the Brooklyn Bridge and
Brooklyn & Queens Transit PCC 1000 (Trolley Museum of New York, Kingston)
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The Brooklyn and Queens Transit Corporation (B&QT) was a subsidiary of the Brooklyn–Manhattan Transit Corporation that operated streetcars in Brooklyn and Queens, New York City, United States (as well as into Manhattan via the Brooklyn Bridge and Williamsburg Bridge
The Williamsburg Bridge is a suspension bridge in New York City across the East River connecting the Lower East Side of Manhattan at Delancey Street with the Williamsburg neighborhood of Brooklyn at Broadway near the Brooklyn-Queens Expressw ...
). It was created in 1929 to operate these routes, which had previously been operated by the BMT directly; its operations were transferred to the New York City Board of Transportation
The New York City Board of Transportation or the Board of Transportation of the City of New York (NYCBOT or BOT) was a city transit commission and operator in New York City, consisting of three members appointed by the mayor. It was created in ...
in 1940, and to the New York City Transit Authority
The New York City Transit Authority (also known as NYCTA, the TA, or simply Transit, and branded as MTA New York City Transit) is a New York state public-benefit corporations, public-benefit corporation in the U.S. state of New York (state), New ...
in 1956.
Preservation
A number of cars from the B&QT and its predecessor companies have been preserved. Several are in theBranford Electric Railway Historic District
The Shore Line Trolley Museum is a trolley museum located in East Haven, Connecticut. Incorporated in 1945, it is the oldest continuously operating trolley museum in the United States. The museum includes exhibits on trolley history in the visito ...
and one is at the Trolley Museum of New York
The Trolley Museum of New York, a non-profit organization, is located at 89 East Strand Street, Kingston, New York. The museum is open to the public on a seasonal schedule, but volunteer activities relating to the preservation of historic tran ...
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See also
*List of streetcar lines in Brooklyn
The following streetcar lines once operated in Brooklyn, New York City, New York, United States.
History
The history of surface line operation in Brooklyn is long and very complicated, and is best presented under one of the following sub-articles ...
*List of streetcar lines in Queens
The following streetcar lines once operated in Queens, New York City, United States.
BMT
The Brooklyn-Manhattan Transit Corporation concentrated on Brooklyn, but had some lines into Queens. Only the ones that significantly entered Queens are sho ...
References
{{Authority control Streetcar lines in Brooklyn Streetcar lines in Queens, New York Surface transit Defunct public transport operators in the United States 1929 establishments in New York City 1956 disestablishments in New York (state)