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Title: Trolley exploring : an electric railroad guide to historic & picturesque places about New York, New Jersey, and New England
Year: 1904 (1900s)
Authors: Childe, Cromwell
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Publisher: Brooklyn, N.Y. : Brooklyn Daily Eagle
Contributing Library: Columbia University Libraries
Digitizing Sponsor: The Durst Organization

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kers. 10 cents ; 1 hour, 15 min-utes. Passes over Manhattan avenue, Lorimer street, TompkiDSavenue, Bergen street, Rogers avenue, Church avenue, then on tothe Culver rails. ROUTE 18B. To Coney Island from Grand street andBroadway Ferries over Reid avenue andCulver tracks. 10 cents ; 1 hour, 15 minutes. Good up-town New York connec-ions. Through Kent avenue, Broadway, Reid avenue, Fulton street,Kingston avenue, Bergen street, then route above. Bead last paragraph, page 31. ROUTE 19. To Coney Island from Fifth avenuea,nd Thirty-sixth street. This route goesthrough Blythebourne, Borough Park,Homewood, Van Pelt Manor, (NewUtrecht), Bath Beach and Ulmer Park Chiefly interesting from its path through many of Brooklyns newiburbs, BlytHebovirrve, Borovigh Park, Homewood,efforts Park, Van Pelt Manor. This region is the 36 Trolley Exploring. heart of the old New Utrecht farming plain, until of recent yearsone great market garden. New Utrecht is almost as interesting historically as is Gravesend
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STATUE OF ALEXANDER HAMILTON, BROOKLYN It figured in the Battle of Long Island, and until within late yearshas had within its bounds many dwellings of the early Dutch.Few of the old farm houses, of great architectural importance asearly American types, now remain, unfortunately. Through service from New York end of Bridge, Fifth avenue Ele vated. Fare 10 cents, to Ulmer Park 5 cents. Time 47 minutes. The Long Island Field, 37 ROUTE 20. To Coney Island from Flatbush, throughFlatlands and South Greenfield, past theConey Island Jockey Club into Sheeps-head Bay, West End and Sea. Gate.From Sheepshead Bay a walk of a halfmile to Manhattan Beach. A trolley ride (10 cents fare) of great picturesqueness and inter-est. Its starting point is reached by the Ocean avenue cars fromthe foot of Broadway, Brooklyn. The villa section of Flatbush.newly rebuilt, can be seen pleasingly from the car windows. FromFlatbvish old Flaalo^rvds is entered, and the farming sectionof SoutK Greenfield. 54 minutes f

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