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Chapter 513, An Act to authorize the construction of a railroad in
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in the other, and ending in a double track on the block of
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Chapter 500, An Act to change the route of the
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and south of
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A Compilation of the
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A Compilation of the Ferry Leases and
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The company was incorporated on May 26, 1864, and opened the
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and proceeded in a general southerly direction through
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The Street Surface Railway Franchises of New York City
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77:New York State Legislature
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821:Jamaica Central Railways
792:Grand Street and Newtown
755:Bridge Operating Company
257:, 1866, pages 412 to 413
212:, 1860, pages 354 to 359
1337:Long Island Bus garages
295:Bus routes in Manhattan
906:Ocean Electric Railway
701:Seventh Avenue Railway
682:Second Avenue Railroad
891:New York Interborough
730:34th Street Crosstown
710:Ninth Avenues Railway
692:Sixth Avenue Railroad
568:Former express routes
131:in one direction and
75:was chartered by the
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1049:Consolidated Railway
997:Westchester Electric
782:Danbury & Harlem
687:Third Avenue Railway
224:Harry James Carman,
183:Bleecker Street Line
1151:Proposed operations
1054:Bridgeport Traction
1044:Connecticut Company
841:Manhattan Bridge 3¢
812:Huntington Railroad
527:Former local routes
18:Seventh Avenue Line
1114:Current operations
1002:Westchester Street
911:Oscar City Railway
242:Our City Railroads
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715:14th Street
93:59th Street
1290:New Jersey
1194:New Jersey
1138:River Line
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1016:New Jersey
988:(Brooklyn)
196:References
149:Park Place
61:bus routes
1320:Carhouses
1294:PSR lines
1254:Manhattan
1217:New Haven
642:operators
123:, with a
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48:. Once a
26:Manhattan
1372:Category
1249:Brooklyn
1237:New York
1165:Red Hook
1158:New York
960:Railroad
697:Broadway
649:New York
85:Broadway
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982:(Bronx)
67:History
1259:Queens
706:Eighth
163:Fourth
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1346:Other
1313:Other
1244:Bronx
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