New York and Long Island Traction Company

For the predecessor to the Brooklyn subways, see Long Island Traction Company.

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.

Mineola Line

The Mineola Line (now the Nassau Inter-County Express n24 bus route) spanned from Queens Village to Mineola (in Nassau County) along Jamaica Avenue.

Brooklyn-Freeport Line

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).

References

1. Bleyer, Bill. "Freeport: Action on the Nautical Mile". Newsday. Archived from the original on 2009-06-20. Retrieved 2008-11-14.
2. "Belmont and Peters Buy Queens Trolleys". The New York Times. June 21, 1905. p. 14. Retrieved 2011-12-18.
3. "Company Profile". Jamaica Buses, Inc. Archived from the original on 2006-01-25.
4. Meyers, Stephen L. (2006). Lost Trolleys of Queens and Long Island. Images of Rail. Charleston, SC: Arcadia Publishing. ISBN 0-7385-4526-0.
5. Transit Journal (Volume 24 ed.). 1904. p. 932. Retrieved 26 February 2017.