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Mileages from the 1899 map[edit]

Going north-south, there are 20 blocks to a mile. Distances between avenues are given on Talk:Commissioners' Plan of 1811. The distances on the map appear to be per track, and all (?) lines were double tracked.

34th Street Ferry Branch of 23rd Street Crosstown Line, 1.40 mi: (23rd Street) 2nd Avenue - 28th and 29th Streets - 1st Avenue (34th Street)
34th Street Crosstown Line, 1.74 mi: (Hudson River) 34th Street (10th Avenue) - (Broadway) 34th Street (Lexington Avenue)

--NE2 14:39, 4 January 2007 (UTC)[reply]

Chambers Street and Grand Street Ferry Railroad?[edit]

It appears that the Chambers Street and Grand Street Ferry Railroad built the Chambers and Madison Streets Line: [1] - but I can't find anything about a lease or merger. --NE2 20:38, 4 January 2007 (UTC)[reply]

1897 list of lines[edit]

This is from a Brooklyn Daily Eagle article on April 2, 1897 page 3. Line names were added by me. --NE2 02:37, 18 January 2007 (UTC)[reply]

Owned

Grand Central station to Chambers street ferry 3.36 Avenue C Line from Houston, West Street and Pavonia Ferry Railroad
Grand street ferry to Chambers street ferry 2.07 Chambers and Madison Streets Line from Chambers Street and Grand Street Ferry Railroad
Vesey and Church streets to South ferry .61 part of Sixth Avenue Line and Eighth Avenue Line from South Ferry Railroad
Broadway, Fifteenth street to Bowling Green 2.51 part of Broadway Line from Broadway Surface Railroad
Grand street ferry to Fourteenth street ferry, North river 3.28 Metropolitan Crosstown Line from Metropolitan Crosstown Railway
Lexington avenue 6.19 Lexington Avenue Line from Lexington Avenue and Pavonia Ferry Railroad
Columbus and Ninth avenues 3.26 Columbus Avenue Line from Columbus and Ninth Avenue Railroad
Lenox avenue 1.81 Lenox Avenue Line built new?
Branches 1.95
Second track 24.79
Total 49.83

Leased

Broadway and Seventh avenue 16.44 Broadway and Seventh Avenue Railroad
Twenty-third street and leased line 17.84 Twenty-Third Street Railway and Bleecker Street and Fulton Ferry Railroad
Ninth avenue 15.26 Ninth Avenue Railroad
Central park, North and East rivers 25.59 Central Park, North and East Rivers Railroad
Forty-second street and Grand street ferry 8.66 Forty-Second Street and Grand Street Ferry Railroad
Sixth avenue 8.14 Sixth Avenue Railroad
Thirty-fourth street 1.74 Thirty-fourth Street Crosstown Railway
Eighth avenue 20.00 Eighth Avenue Railroad
Fulton street 2.00 Fulton Street Railroad
New York and Harlem River railroad, city line 19.32 New York and Harlem Railroad
Twenty-eighth and Twenty-ninth, crosstown 4.85 Twenty-eighth and Twenty-ninth Streets Crosstown Railroad
Total 139.84

Total 189.67

25.34 miles by cable, 6.78 by conduit, and 133.38 by horses --NE2 02:37, 18 January 2007 (UTC)[reply]