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	Brooklyn
		Brooklyn, coterminous with Kings County, is a borough of New York City in the U.S. State of New York.
		Brooklyn, which was originally the Village of Breuckelen on the shore of the East River near Lower Manhattan was named after the town of Breukelen in the Netherlands.
		With a current population of 2,465,326 (2000 census), Brooklyn is the most populous borough in New York City, and would be the fourth largest city in the USA all by itself.
	www.brainyencyclopedia.com /encyclopedia/b/br/brooklyn.html (1722 words)

	Brooklyn - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		In 1898, Brooklyn residents voted by a slight majority to join with Manhattan, the Bronx, Queens and Richmond (later Staten Island) as the five boroughs to form the modern City of Greater New York.
		Brooklyn, the 'Borough of Homes', can be understood as a collection of neighborhoods, many historically descended from the old towns and villages of Dutch times.
		Brooklyn's most beloved and cherished institution had left, and the move is cited by some historians as one of the catalysts for the decline of Brooklyn in the 1960s and 1970s.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Brooklyn (3132 words)

	New York Vintage Trolley Systems by John Smatlak
		The non-profit Brooklyn Historic Railway Association (BHRA) is pursuing construction of a downtown historic trolley loop, to be operated using restored PCC cars.
		BHRA hopes to begin construction of the additional trackage in the Fall of 2001.
		This exciting news came on the heels of a near disaster; on September 7th, an errant tugboat rammed the historic pier where the group's carbarn is located, causing significant damage to the pier itself as well as the trackage and overhead wire in the area in front of the carbarn.
	www.railwaypreservation.com /vintagetrolley/brooklyn.htm (642 words)

	Brooklyn - FreeEncyclopedia (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-21)
		Brooklyn, incorporated as a town in 1646, was the first town in New York State.
		In 1683, Kings County incorporated Brooklyn with 5 other towns, occupying the area we currently know as Brooklyn.
		The Brooklyn Bridge, completed in 1883, connected Brooklyn with the island of Manhattan.
	openproxy.ath.cx /br/Brooklyn.html (469 words)

	[No title] (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-21)
		The Brooklyn Bridge in 1890, seven years after its opening Kings County in New York StateBrooklyn, with about 2.5 million inhabitants, is the most populous of the five boroughs of New York City, and would be the fourth largest city in the United States all by itself.
		The Battle of Brooklyn was fought across Kings CountyOn August 27, 1776, the Battle of Long Island (aka Battle of Brooklyn) was the first major engagement fought in the American Revolutionary War.
		The City of Brooklyn thrived in the 1890s, with consolidation in Kings County and Greater New YorkToward the end of the 19th century, the City of Brooklyn experienced its final, explosive growth spurt.
	alas.matf.bg.ac.yu /~mr04046/Brooklyn.html (2389 words)

	Wired New York Forum - Red Hook, Brooklyn
		The Brooklyn Historic Railway Association (BHRA) is a non-profit organization dedicated to returning trolleys to the streets of Brooklyn, NY.
		The BHRA museum and trolley barn is located in Red Hook, Brooklyn, on the historic Beard Street Piers (circa 1870).
		A rival railcar group, meanwhile, which recently splintered from Diamond's Brooklyn Historical Railway Association is proposing to build a separate line on the other side of the Gowanus Expressway, using tracks near Borough Hall last used in 1930.
	www.wirednewyork.com /forum/printthread.php?t=2938 (5479 words)

	Bob Diamond - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		Robert "Bob" Diamond is an engineer, urban explorer, and historical Brooklyn transit advocate.
		He rediscovered the Atlantic Avenue Tunnel in 1981 and began the Brooklyn Historic Railway Association in 1982.
		Its building in Red Hook serves as the Brooklyn Trolley Museum.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Bob_Diamond (75 words)

	redhook
		The Beard Street Pier is the focus of revitalization of this heretofore unknown corner of Brooklyn.
		Additional coverage of the BHRA, lots more photos, and more info on the Trolley Museum can be found here and at Bill Russell's Penny Bridge page.
		Brooklyn, formerly a port city, has had waterfront activity drastically curtailed from the mid-1900s.
	www.forgotten-ny.com /TROLLEYS/redhook/redhook.html (826 words)

	Railway Museum Quarterly - Last Issue
		The Connecticut Trolley Museum was formed in 1940 as a spinoff of the Connecticut Valley Chapter of the National Railway Historical Society.
		Museums, tourist railways and historic operations are not exempt from the rules of the American working environment.
		BHRA is a heritage trolley project that never really got off the ground, and now is in the process of being dissolved.
	www.railwaymuseums.org /RMQ_summer_2003.htm (8779 words)

	LIRR History FAQ - Atlantic Avenue Cobble Hill Tunnel
		This tunnel was rediscovered by rail historian Bob Diamond, who is also the head of the Brooklyn Historic Railway Association, which is actively working to return streetcars to the streets of Brooklyn, New York.
		This was the Brooklyn landing of the ferry that also lent its name to the current location on Manhattan Island from which ferries now embark for Staten Island.
		The cut (later tunnel) was built to avoid the use of the noble beasts, and incidentally, to improve the appearance of the then aristocratic neighborhood.
	www.rapidtransit.net /net/faq/nyc/AtlanticTunnel.html (822 words)

	New York's Premier Alternative Newspaper. Arts, Music, Food, Movies and Opinion (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-21)
		Bob Diamond, president of the Brooklyn Historic Railway Association, found an entrance to it in 1980.
		The BHRA was formed to spearhead the tunnel’s restoration and has maintained its preservation ever since.
		It was all of us finding our way around this secret world underneath a Brooklyn street trying to figure out how something like this should play out for us, how to crunch so much disparate and unexpected data.
	www.nypress.com /15/47/nyc/nyc4.cfm (809 words)

	Street Level....Atlantic Avenue (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-21)
		(Today, there’s a paper with the same name that focuses on Brooklyn real estate and community issues.) Diamond found an article that carried pictures of the construction plans of the tunnel, which was built in 1844, and he eventually found a set of duplicate plans for the subway tunnel in the Brooklyn borough archives.
		The Long Island Railroad built the Atlantic Avenue tunnel to link the growing Brooklyn waterfront to the main rail line that extended across Long Island, which was the fastest route to Boston at the time.
		In 1982, Diamond established Brooklyn Historic Railway Association as a non-profit organization to excavate and rehabilitate the tunnel as well as to act as its custodian.
	journalism.nyu.edu /pubzone/streetlevel/atlanticave/movers/diamonds.htm (847 words)

	The Atlantic Avenue Tunnel (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-21)
		The Atlantic Avenue Tunnel, as it is now called, was built in seven months in 1844 by the Long Island Rail Road [Map] to relieve congestion in downtown Brooklyn.
		Occasional tours of the tunnel are given by Diamond, which end in a trip at the
		Brooklyn Trolley Museum, which is operated by Diamond.
	wt.mit.edu /Subway/Tunnel (228 words)

	ipedia.com: Atlantic Avenue Tunnel Article (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-21)
		The Atlantic Avenue Tunnel is an abandoned railroad tunnel beneath Atlantic Avenue in downtown Brooklyn, New York.
		The Atlantic Avenue Tunnel (or Cobble Hill Tunnel of the Long Island Rail Road) is an abandoned railroad tunnel beneath Atlantic Avenue in downtown Brooklyn, New York.
		It fell into myth, but was rediscovered by the 18-year-old Robert "Bob" Diamond in 1981, who entered from a manhole at Atlantic and Court Street.
	www.ipedia.com /atlantic_avenue_tunnel.html (541 words)

	S. Berliner, III's Courtesy Page for the Brooklyn Historic Railway Association
		Jan Lorenzen and Arthur Melnick of Brooklyn are facing a similar quandary, albeit on a somewhat larger scale.
		The Brooklyn Historic Railway Association - a great group of trolley, traction, and transit (and railroad and history, etc.) enthusiasts who have banded together to restore, preserve, and operate "trolley" cars in the former great City of Brooklyn (now the Borough of Brooklyn, New York City), Kings County, Long Island, New York.
		The primary project, however, is the trolley project in Red Hook, and now the BHRA has added a second project to its plate, street running, although the concept is to ultimately connect the two.
	home.att.net /~Berliner-Ultrasonics/bhra.html (2260 words)

	Museum of American Financial History
		History of the Atlantic Avenue Railroad Tunnel and the goals of the Brooklyn Historic Railway Association to restore service on this route.
		History of the development of the Philadelphia passenger railway system, with a very useful table listing early charters.
		The story of George Mortimer Pullman's proposal to make railway travel more comfortable by designing "sleeper" cars complete with mattresses, pillows, blankets, and washrooms at each end of the car.
	www.financialhistory.org /MAGAZINE/list_railroads.htm (539 words)

	urban exploration : urbanlens : atlantic avenue tunnel
		The Brooklyn Historic Railway Association allows groups to visit the historic Atlantic Avenue tunnel twice yearly.
		On the occasion of an art exhibition, the tunnel was open once more this year to most likely the largest crowd ever.
		The half-mile tunnel was sealed-up in 1861, forgotten, then rediscovered in 1980 by Bob Diamond, president of the Brooklyn Historic Railway Association.
	www.urbanlens.com /files/aa/aa.html (302 words)

	Untitled Document (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-21)
		This is the first art presentation about this city's underground that is held in an actual underground location.
		The setting for this exhibit is the historic Atlantic Avenue tunnel, the world's first subway tunnel.
		The event is organized in cooperation with Bob Diamond and the Brooklyn Historic Railway Association.” More info here.
	www.insanebunkers.com /explored/ARS_Subterranea02.htm (162 words)

	Destruction of Montreal's PCC Streetcars (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-21)
		The result was a sleek, modern streetcar named the PCC after the committee who designed it.
		Each car could hold nearly twice as many passengers as an average city bus and in America the Brooklyn Historic Railway Association reported that a PCC car would use only $6 worth of pollution free electricity per hour of operation compared with $32 worth of diesel fuel per hour for a bus.
		Unlike her unfortunate sisters who met their fate in the Montreal waterfront scrap yard in 1964, number 3517 was preserved by the Canadian Railroad Historical Association at the Canadian Railway Museum at Delson, Quebec.
	www.education.mcgill.ca /profs/cartwright/rail/pcc.htm (435 words)

	Atlantic Avenue Tunnel
		The Atlantic Avenue Tunnel (or Long Island Rail Road Tunnel) was the first subway built in the world.
		It ran for about 2750 feet beneath Atlantic Avenue between Hicks Street and Boerum Place in downtown Brooklyn.
		It has been listed on the National Register of Historic Places since 1989.
	usapedia.com /a/atlantic-avenue-tunnel.html (264 words)

	Rapid Transit Net - Favorite Links
		The Light Rail Transit Association (G.B.) serves the interest of both hobbyist and professional interested in the history, technology and current state of light rail worldwide.
		Paul Weyrich is a nationally prominent conservative and publisher of the web-revived New Electric Railway Journal, presenting news and advocacy of electric rail.
		The Third Rail's editor provides historical details and is quoted in Randy Kennedy's Tunnel Vision Column on the IND in The New York Times, August 21, 2001.
	www.rapidtransit.net /net/links.htm (927 words)

	village voice > nyclife > Neighborhoods by Janet Kim
		November 27th, 2002 6:00 PM Red Hooked on a feeling: The Brooklyn 'hood is a cobblestone's throw away.
		Lined with eminent warehouses that once thrived on the daily hustle of longshoremen, Red Hook's cobblestone streets resemble Terry Malloy's prophetic path in 1954's On the Waterfront.
		Robert Moses's Gowanus Expressway cut the area off from Brooklyn proper in 1946, sealing its derelict fate, but the beauty of the waterfront promises to put Red Hook on more than tourist and hipster maps.
	www.villagevoice.com /nyclife/0249,kim,40275,15.html (692 words)

	Brooklyn Trolley Museum (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-21)
		Bob Diamond, the guy who found and helped excavate the old Atlantic Avenue railroad tunnel in Brooklyn, is the founder.
		The article was really about the idea of bringing back trolley service to the downtown section of Brooklyn, plus the area around the East River bridge crossings and in Brooklyn Heights.
		This is where one of the predecessors of the Brooklyn Rapid Transit (BRT) was started - the Brooklyn Heights Trolley Company.
	www2pb.ip-soft.net /railinfo/text/btm.html (249 words)

	trolprop1
		This is a proposal for a Historic Trolley line for Darby, Pennsylvania.
		can also be used as a lay up and storage track for historic trolleys.
		An un-restored historic PCC trolley will be donated to the project by
	www.darbyhistory.com /trolprop1.html (514 words)

	[No title]
		To see more about the Brooklyn Historic Railway Association (BHRA), kindly visit their website at: www.brooklynrail.com It comes complete with news about the recent media event where for the first time in 46 years, a PCC trolley car appeared on the streets of Brooklyn, NY.
		Clarence Caesar of the state historic preservation office said Friday that the agency won't comment on the issue until after the public meeting is held in San Jose.
		According to Fort White Historical Society President Joan Shelton, the railroad was brought to the area in 1888, and the train station was probably built sometime between 1886 and 1888.
	www.railfan.net /lists/rshsdepot-digest/rshsdepot-digest.archive.200301 (14227 words)

	S. Berliner, III's Railroad Page 4
		Brooklyn Historic Railway Association and the legendary LIRR Atlantic Avenue Tunnel.
		Nowadays, the type 52 is Germany's most active steam loco; a lot of them have survived so he thinks it's okay to have made one into a monument.
		That is NOT the Staten Island Railway, which is a part of the MTA's NYC Transit ("subway") System, nor the SIRT (Staten Island Rapid Transit, the SIR's predecessor to 1994).
	home.att.net /~Berliner-Ultrasonics/rr4.html (2661 words)

	Shaker Heights Rapid Transit (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-21)
		In the 1980s, Cleveland sold 12 of its cars to Buffalo, which planned to use them for a new line connecting to the Metro Rail.
		Those plans fell through, and Buffalo sold the cars to the Brooklyn [NY] Historic Railway Association, which planned to use them in a heritage streetcar operation.
		However, the BHRA lost support from New York City, its tracks were torn up in 2003, and the cars were scrapped in late May 2005.
	web.presby.edu /~jtbell/transit/Cleveland/SHRT (669 words)

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