Everything about The Kings County Elevated Railway totally explained
The
Kings County Elevated Railway Company (KCERy) was a builder and operator of
elevated railway lines in
Kings County,
New York, now coextensive with the
borough of
Brooklyn in
New York City. Its original services were operated with
steam locomotives.
Corporate History
The KCERy was founded
January 6,
1879 but didn't open its first line for revenue service until 1888. The company was organized by
Judge Hiram Bond and financed by a group of investors from Boston around
Willard T. Sears a contractor with experience in stone railroad bridges and ramps. On
October 1,
1899, the
Kings County Elevated Railroad (KCERR) became successor to the KCERy, and on
May 24,
1900 the KCERR was merged into its competitor, the
Brooklyn Union Elevated Railroad company, thus ending its separate corporate existence.
Fulton Street Line
The KCERy ran only one
rapid transit mainline, the
Fulton Street Elevated, beginning in 1888, but it was one of the most lucrative in Brooklyn, operating from
Fulton Ferry, through the heart of the downtown area, then through the center of the borough, and the
communities of
Bedford-Stuyvesant,
East New York and
Brownsville to City Line. In addition, the KCERy later acquired access to the tracks of the Brooklyn Bridge railroad to bring its trains to the Park Row terminal in
New York City (
Manhattan) opposite the
New York City Hall.
Service on the Brighton Beach Line
In 1896, the KCERy built a short elevated line from Franklin Avenue and Fulton Street to connect to the tracks of the
Brooklyn & Brighton Beach RR south of Atlantic Avenue, permitting KCERy elevated trains access to the communities of
Crown Heights,
Flatbush,
Midwood,
Homecrest,
Sheepshead Bay and
Coney Island at
Brighton Beach.
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