Talk:List of streetcar lines in Manhattan

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Name	Current	From	To	Route	Company	Notes
1 Avenue A Line		East 23rd Street Ferry	Delancey Street	should be here	Forty-Second Street and Grand Street Ferry Railroad???
2 Avenue B Line		Chatham Square	East 34th Street Ferry	East Broadway, [one way: Pitt Street, Avenue C, 3rd Street / Ridge Street, Stanton Street, Avenue A, 1st Street, Avenue B], Avenue B, 14th Street, 1st Avenue, and 33rd Street?
3 Avenue C Line		Avenue A and 24th Street	Chambers Street Ferry	should be here	Houston, West Street and Pavonia Ferry Railroad
4 Bleecker Street Line		Broadway and Bleecker Street	14th Street and 9th Avenue	Bleecker Street, [one way: ?, 4th Street, 12th Street / Bleecker Street], and Hudson Street	Bleecker Street and Fulton Ferry Railroad	last horse car line in NYC
5 Broadway Line	M6	South Ferry	7th Avenue and 59th Street	State Street and Whitehall Street, Broadway, and 7th Avenue	Broadway and Seventh Avenue Railroad
6 Broadway Branch Line	M104, mostly	Broadway and Houston Street	West 130th Street Ferry	Broadway and 125th Street
7 Broadway-Columbus Avenue Line	M7, partly	Bowling Green (loop north of Battery Place)	Columbus Avenue and 109th Street	Broadway, 7th Avenue, 59th Street, and Columbus Avenue	Columbus and Ninth Avenue Railroad??
8 Canal Street Crosstown Line		Centre Street and Walker Street	Hudson Street and Watts Street
9 Canal and Grand Street Ferry Line		Grand Street Ferry	Washington Street and North Moore Street	Madison Street, Gouverneur Street and Scammel Street???, East Broadway, Canal Street, [one-way: Walker Street, West Broadway, North Moore Street / Canal Street, Church Street, Lispenard Street, West Broadway, Beach Street, Greenwich Street], and North Moore Street
10 Chambers and Madison Street Line	M22	Grand Street Ferry or Roosevelt Street Ferry	Chambers Street Ferry	Madison Street, Chambers Street, Chambers Street and Duane Street, and West Street	Chambers Street and Grand Street Ferry Railroad	the Roosevelt Street Ferry branch was via Chambers Street and a short spur between South and Front Streets
11 Christopher and East 23rd Street Ferry Line		East 23rd Street Ferry	Christopher Street Ferry	23rd Street, Avenue A, 14th Street, 9th Avenue, Gansevoort Street/Washington Street and Greenwich Street, and Christopher Street
12 Columbus Avenue Line	M7, mostly	City Hall	Lenox Avenue and 146th Street	Broadway, 7th Avenue, 59th Street, Columbus Avenue, 109th Street, Manhattan Avenue, 116th Street, and Lenox Avenue	Columbus and Ninth Avenue Railroad??
13 Eighth Avenue Line	M10, mostly	South Ferry or Cortlandt Street Ferry	8th Avenue and 159th Street or Macomb's Lane and 154th Street	Cortlandt Street and Dey Street??, Greenwich Street, West Broadway, Canal Street, and 8th Avenue	Eighth Avenue Railroad	probably used State Street, Battery Place, Trinity Place, and Barclay and Fulton Streets from South Ferry to West Broadway used Macomb's Lane from 8th Avenue
14 8th Street Crosstown Line	M8	Williamsburg Bridge Plaza or East 10th Street Ferry	Christopher Street Ferry	10th Street, Avenue A, 9th Street/Astor Place and 8th Street, 8th Street, Clinton Place, Greenwich Avenue, 10th Street/Washington Street and Christopher Street, and Christopher Street	Christopher and Tenth Street Railroad	probably came off the Williamsburg Bridge onto Clinton Street/1st Street and Essex Street, and Avenue A
15 86th Street Crosstown Line	M86	East 92nd Street Ferry	Central Park West	Avenue A, 86th Street, Madison Avenue, 85th Street, and 86th Street Transverse
16 53rd Street Crosstown Line		6th Avenue and 50th Street	9th Avenue and 54th Street	6th Avenue, 53rd Street, and 9th Avenue
17 59th Street Crosstown Line		1st Avenue and 59th Street	10th Avenue and 59th Street or 10th Avenue and 54th Street	59th Street (and presumably 10th Avenue)	Central Park, North and East River Railroad
18 First Avenue and East Belt Line		South Ferry	125th Street	should be here	Central Park, North and East River Railroad
19 14th Street-Williamsburg Bridge Line		Williamsburg Bridge Plaza	West 22nd Street Ferry	Williamsburg Bridge, Clinton Street/1st Street and Essex Street, Avenue A, 14th Street, 11th Avenue?, and 22nd Street
20 Fourth and Madison Avenue Line	M1, mostly	General Post Office (near City Hall?), Astor Place and Broadway, or Mott Haven Station	Madison Avenue and 135th Street (on the middle of the line!)	Park Row, Centre Street, Grand Street and Broome Street, Bowery (inner tracks), Park Avenue, 42nd Street, Madison Avenue, and 138th Street	New York and Harlem Railroad	Astor Place was used to get to Astor Place and Broadway
21 Fourth Avenue and Williamsburg Bridge Line		Williamsburg Bridge Plaza	Grand Central Terminal	Williamsburg Bridge, Delancey Street, Bowery (inner tracks), and Park Avenue
22 42nd Street Crosstown Line	M42	East 34th Street Ferry or East 42nd Street Ferry	West 42nd Street Ferry	should be here
22A ?				should be here
23 Fulton Street Line		Fulton Street Ferry	Cortlandt Street Ferry or Barclay Street Ferry	Fulton Street and West Street	Fulton Street Railroad	probably used West Street north to Barclay Street Ferry
24 Grand Central Station and West 23rd Street Ferry Line		West 23rd Street Ferry	Grand Central Terminal	23rd Street and Park Avenue
25 Grand Street Line		Williamsburg Bridge Plaza or Grand Street Ferry	Desbrosses Street Ferry	Williamsburg Bridge, Essex Street and Clinton Street, Grand Street, ?, Vestry Street or Laight Street??, Greenwich Street and Washington Street, and Desbrosses Street		obviously used Grand Street from the Grand Street Ferry
26 Kingsbridge Line	part of M100	8th Avenue and 145th Street	Broadway and 221st Street	145th Street, Amsterdam Avenue, St. Nicholas Avenue, and Broadway
27 Lexington Avenue Line	M103, mostly	South Ferry	Lexington Avenue and 129th Street	State Street and Whitehall Street, Broadway, 23rd Street, and Lexington Avenue	Lexington Avenue and Pavonia Ferry Railroad?
28 Lexington and Lenox Avenues Line	M102, mostly	South Ferry	Lenox Avenue and 146th Street	State Street and Whitehall Street, Broadway, 23rd Street, Lexington Avenue, 116th Street, and Lenox Avenue
29 Metropolitan Crosstown Line		Grand Street Ferry	Desbrosses Street Ferry	East Street, Delancey Street, Bowery (inner tracks), Spring Street, West Broadway, Watts Street, and West Street	Metropolitan Crosstown Railway
30 Ninth Avenue Line	part of M11	Cortlandt Street Ferry or Christopher Street Ferry	Columbus Avenue and 65th Street	Cortlandt Street and Dey Street??, Greenwich Street and Washington Street/Gansevoort Street, and 9th Avenue	Ninth Avenue Railroad
31 110th Street Crosstown Line		110th Street and Pleasant Avenue	125th Street and Columbus Avenue	110th Street, St. Nicholas Avenue, and Hancock Place
32 116th Street Crosstown Line	M116	116th Street and Pleasant Avenue	106th Street and Amsterdam Avenue	116th Street, Manhattan Avenue, 109th Street, Columbus Avenue, and 106th Street
33 125th Street Crosstown Line	Bx15 and M60	125th Street and Pleasant Avenue	West 130th Street Ferry	125th Street
34 145th Street Crosstown Line	Bx19	145th Street and Lenox Avenue (or Southern Boulevard via 149th Street?)	145th Street and Broadway	145th Street
35 Second Avenue Line	M15, mostly	General Post Office (City Hall?) or Astor Place and Broadway	2nd Avenue and 129th Street	Park Row, East Broadway, Bowery, Grand Street, Forsyth Street/? and Chrystie Street, 2nd Avenue	Second Avenue Railroad	presumably Stuyvesant Street and Astor Place was used to get to Astor Place and Broadway
36 17th and 18th Street Crosstown Line		East 23rd Street Ferry	University Place and 8th Street	23rd Street, Avenue A, 18th Street and 17th Street, Broadway, and Universty Place	Central Crosstown Railroad
37 Seventh Avenue Line		Greenwich Avenue and Christopher Street	7th Avenue and 59th Street	Greenwich Avenue and 7th Avenue	Broadway and Seventh Avenue Railroad	According to [1], rush-hour Seventh Avenue Line trains ran east along the 8th Street Crosstown Line and south on Avenue A to Delancey Street; this was probably the Seventh Avenue-Brooklyn Line from 1911 to 1919 ([2]). In 1899, Seventh Avenue Line trains had not run below Canal Street for many years, but gave transfers to the Eighth Avenue Line.[3]
38 Sixth Avenue Line		6th Avenue and 4th Street	1st Avenue and 59th Street	6th Avenue and 59th Street	Sixth Avenue Railroad
39 Sixth and Amsterdam Avenue Line		South Ferry or 6th Avenue and 4th Street	Broadway and LaSalle Street or Amsterdam Avenue and 195th Street	State Street and Whitehall Street, Battery Place, Trinity Place, Barclay Street and Fulton Street, West Broadway, 4th Street and 3rd Street, 6th Avenue, 59th Street, Columbus Avenue, Broadway, Amsterdam Avenue		used LaSalle Street as a spur
40 Sixth Avenue Ferry Line		6th Avenue and 3rd Street	Desbrosses Street Ferry	6th Avenue, Carmine Street, Varick Street, Watts Street, and West Street
41 Tenth Avenue Line		East 34th Street Ferry	Amsterdam Avenue and 71st Street	should be here
42 Third Avenue Line	M101 and M103, mostly	General Post Office (City Hall?)	Amsterdam Avenue and 195th Street or 3rd Avenue and 130th Street	Park Row, Bowery (outer tracks), 3rd Avenue, 125th Street, and Amsterdam Avenue	Third Avenue Railroad	obviously continues on 3rd Avenue to 130th Street
43 23rd Street Crosstown Line	M23	East 23rd Street Ferry or East 34th Street Ferry	West 23rd Street Ferry	23rd Street	Twenty-Third Street Railway	unclear how it gets to East 34th Street Ferry - it can use 2nd Avenue northbound but not southbound?
44 28th and 29th Street Crosstown Line		East 34th Street Ferry	West 23rd Street Ferry	33rd Street?, 1st Avenue, 29th Street and 28th Street, 11th Avenue, and 24th Street	Twenty-eighth and Twenty-ninth Streets Crosstown Railroad
45 34th Street Crosstown Line	M34	East 34th Street Ferry	West 42nd Street Ferry or West 34th Street Ferry	34th Street, 10th Avenue, and 42nd Street	Thirty-fourth Street Crosstown Railway	obviously stayed on 34th Street to reach that ferry
46 West Belt Line		South Ferry	10th Avenue and 53rd Street	State Street and Whitehall Street, Battery Place, West Street, and 10th Avenue	Central Park, North and East River Railroad
47 West 34th Street Pier Line		10th Avenue	West 34th Street Ferry

The Fort George and Eleventh Avenue Railroad apparently operated on 145th Street. There was also a Thirty-fourth Street Ferry and Eleventh Avenue Railroad.

Lines on the 1879 map

• 1 Seventh Avenue Line, but continues south to City Hall
• 2 unknown
• 3 unknown
• 4 West Belt Line
• 5 First Avenue and East Belt Line
• 6 Second Avenue Line, but continues south to Peck Slip via Oliver Street
• 7 23rd Street Crosstown Line
• 8 Bleecker Street Line, but continues southeast to Fulton Ferry
• 9 23rd Street Crosstown Line to East 34th Street
• 10 17th and 18th Street Crosstown Line, but continues west to foot of West 11th Street
• 11 unknown
• 12 Avenue C Line
• 13 Avenue C Line, but to foot of East 10th Street
• 14 Ninth Avenue Line
• 15 Sixth Avenue Line and Sixth Avenue Ferry Line, but continuing south to City Hall?
• 16 Sixth Avenue Line and Sixth Avenue Ferry Line, but continuing south to ?
• 17 Third Avenue Line
• 18 Third Avenue Line

--NE2 18:03, 30 December 2006 (UTC)

North-south lines, sorted

• First Avenue and East Belt Line
• Avenue B Line
• Avenue A Line
• Second Avenue Line
• Third Avenue Line
• Lexington Avenue Line; Lexington and Lenox Avenues Line
• Fourth and Madison Avenues Line; Fourth Avenue and Williamsburg Bridge Line
• Broadway Line
• Sixth Avenue Ferry Line; Sixth Avenue Line
• Seventh Avenue Line
• Eighth Avenue Line
• Ninth Avenue Line; Broadway and Columbus Avenue Line; Columbus Avenue Line
• West Belt Line; Tenth Avenue Line; Amsterdam Avenue Line
• Broadway Branch Line
• Kingsbridge Line

--NE2 23:17, 30 December 2006 (UTC)

Here's an article that may be useful: [4] --NE2 11:35, 11 January 2007 (UTC)

There is an interesting list of unused tracks in the Brooklyn Daily Eagle June 18, 1902 page 3. --NE2 19:38, 17 January 2007 (UTC)

In May 1913 there were still 6 horse car lines: [5] This included the Avenue B Line, West Belt Line, and Bleecker Street Line. --NE2 23:44, 17 January 2007 (UTC)

Four East Side storage battery lines were bustituted in September 1919: Avenue C Line, Spring and Delancey Streets Line (Metropolitan Crosstown), Chambers and Madison Streets Line, and Sixth Avenue Ferry Line. It looks like it was three companies operating four lines - or maybe it's saying that only three bus routes came out of it; the Sixth Avenue Ferry Line might have been discontinued. But New York Railways definitely had the Avenue C, Metropolitan Crosstown, and Chambers and Madison Streets Lines. --NE2 04:42, 18 January 2007 (UTC)

There's a whole list of lines from 1906 in [6]. --NE2 15:12, 18 January 2007 (UTC)

This book looks very useful: [7] --NE2 16:30, 22 February 2007 (UTC)

[8] confirms that the Avenue B Line was in 24th and not 23rd. --NE2 03:54, 7 March 2007 (UTC)

Cable cars

I am being confused by names. Does this list include the cable lines pulled by Cable Building (New York City)? Jim.henderson (talk) 18:50, 1 March 2015 (UTC)