When Did Trolleys Service Stop In Bronx New York

The trolleys of yore may be gone…but in streets that haven't been repaved for awhile, aboriginal trolley tracks point their snouts above the tar and physical to go a jiff of air before they are buried again below fresh pavement for another few decades!

The trolleys are gone… at least in New York City they are. Yet…look around. Chances are, yous'll find a rail here, a track there to remind yous that trolleys were in one case the main above-ground grade of transportation in NYC and fume-belching buses were years in the future.

LEFT: You can't keep a proficient trolley runway downwards as this scene on 1000 Street near Union Avenue in Williamsburg, Brooklyn, proves. RIGHT: Flushing Avenue in Ridgewood virtually Johnson Avenue.

Flushing Avenue near Johnson Artery is in demand of repaving. Bad news for drivers but proficient news for urban archeologists looking for show of where the trolleys once ran.

[by 2009 Flushing Avenue had been paved and the tracks removed]

This tolley track(at quaternary Avenue and Bay Ridge Avenue) formerly served the trolley line that served Bay Ridge Avenue and third Avenue in Bay Ridge, Brooklyn.

The nearby 69th Street Ferry,which connected Bay Ridge with St. George, Staten Island, is equally long departed, having been shut downwardly rather than compete with the then-new Verrazano-Narrows Bridge.

Some tracks poked through the asphalt at Grand Army Plaza in Brooklyn.

Church Avenue at McDonald Artery.

Church Avenue is wider between East 5th and East 7th Streets because of an underpass for trolleys; after the terminal car ran in 1956, the tunnel was filled in, but the widening remains.

Humboldt Street at Driggs Avenue in Greenpoint.

Winter freezing and spring thawing accept left massive potholes on some streets, revealing the truth that lurks under NYC streets: the fact that trolley tracks are all the same in that location awaiting use if 'ight rails' e'er makes a comeback, as it has in Jersey City.

Hither Forgotten Fan Mick Andreano gestures toward a Driggs Avenue discovery.