New York and Long Island Traction Company

New York & Long Island Traction Company
New York & Long Island Traction Company
	A woman boarding New York & Long Island Traction Company Trolley no. 25 circa 1918.
Overview
Owner	Long Island Rail Road(50%); Interborough Rapid Transit Company(50%)
Locale	Queens, New York City; Nassau County, New York.
Service
Type	Streetcar
Operator	Long Island Rail Road(1902-1924)
History
Opened	1902
Closed	1926
Technical
Track gauge	4 ft 8+1⁄2 in (1,435 mm)
Minimum radius	(?)

The New York and Long Island Traction Company was a street railway company in Queens and Nassau County, New York, United States.^[1] It was partially owned by a holding company for the Long Island Rail Road and partially by the Interborough Rapid Transit Company.^[2]^[3] The company operated from New York City east to Freeport,^[1] Hempstead,^[1] and Mineola.^[4]

Lines

The railroad had two main lines.

The Brooklyn-Freeport Line spanned from Brooklyn (at the former Grant Avenue station) to Freeport (also in Nassau County) and ran mostly along Rockaway Boulevard, North Conduit Avenue, Atlantic Avenue and Merrick Road. The 17-mile (27 km) route^[5] was mostly replaced by the Q7 and Q85 (operated by MTA Regional Bus Operations) and n4 (operated by Nassau Inter-County Express).

1 2 3 Bleyer, Bill. "Freeport: Action on the Nautical Mile". Newsday. Archived from the original on June 20, 2009. Retrieved November 14, 2008.
↑ "Belmont and Peters Buy Queens Trolleys". The New York Times. June 21, 1905. p. 14. Retrieved December 18, 2011.
↑ "Company Profile". Jamaica Buses, Inc. Archived from the original on January 25, 2006.
↑ Meyers, Stephen L. (2006). Lost Trolleys of Queens and Long Island. Images of Rail. Charleston, SC: Arcadia Publishing. ISBN 0-7385-4526-0.
↑ Transit Journal (Volume 24 ed.). 1904. p. 932. Retrieved February 26, 2017.