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BMT West End Line - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia |
 | | The West End Line, now a subway line in Brooklyn, New York City, is a branch line from the Broadway (Manhattan)-Fourth Avenue (Brooklyn) subway, serving the communities of Borough Park, New Utrecht, Bensonhurst, Bath Beach and Coney Island. |
 | | The West End Line was opened on October 5, 1863 as a steam dummy road, the Brooklyn, Bath and Coney Island Rail Road (BBandCI), to serve the communities between the Brooklyn city line and Bath Beach. |
 | | At the Brooklyn end, the steam line ended at 36th Street and Fifth Avenue, where the BBandCI's own horsecars ran to a connection with horsecars of the Brooklyn City Railroad at 25th Street and Fifth Avenue. |
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