The New York City Interborough Railway was a streetcar transit system chartered in 1902 to construct feeder lines to serve

Interborough Rapid Transit The Interborough Rapid Transit Company (IRT) was the private operator of New York City's original underground subway line that opened in 1904, as well as earlier elevated railways and additional rapid transit lines in New York City. The IRT ...

's subway and elevated stations in

the Bronx The Bronx ( ) is the northernmost of the five Boroughs of New York City, boroughs of New York City, coextensive with Bronx County, in the U.S. state of New York (state), New York. It shares a land border with Westchester County, New York, West ...

. The streetcar lines were given permission to cross the

Harlem River The Harlem River is an tidal strait in New York City, flowing between the Hudson River and the East River and separating the island of Manhattan from the Bronx on the United States mainland. The northern stretch, also called the Spuyten Duyvi ...

to gain access to the

Manhattan Manhattan ( ) is the most densely populated and geographically smallest of the Boroughs of New York City, five boroughs of New York City. Coextensive with New York County, Manhattan is the County statistics of the United States#Smallest, larg ...

lines. The railway opened for business in 1906, and came under direct control of Interborough Rapid Transit in 1910. An agreement was reached with

Third Avenue Railway The Third Avenue Railway System (TARS), founded 1852, was a streetcar system serving the New York City boroughs of Manhattan and the Bronx along with lower Westchester County. For a brief period of time, TARS also operated the Steinway Lines i ...

to purchase the franchises and continue operating streetcar service in 1911.

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Streetcar lines in Manhattan Streetcar lines in the Bronx Streetcars in New York (state) Predecessors and affiliates of the Interborough Rapid Transit Company Third Avenue Railway Defunct public transport operators in the United States Defunct New York (state) railroads Railway companies established in 1902 1902 establishments in New York City {{NYC-stub