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)[citation needed]
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 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.