Talk:New York Railways Company

Leases

The following were leased in 1917:

• Bleecker Street and Fulton Ferry Railroad
• Broadway and Seventh Avenue Railway
• Central Crosstown Railroad
• Christopher and Tenth Street Railroad
• Eighth Avenue Railroad
• Fort George and Eleventh Avenue Railroad
• Forty-second Street and Grand Street Ferry Railroad
• New York and Harlem Railroad (only the surface line of course)
• Ninth Avenue Railroad
• Sixth Avenue Railroad
• Thirty-fourth Street Crosstown Railroad
• Twenty-third Street Railway

--NE2 02:26, 7 March 2007 (UTC)

Table

This will probably go in the article.

Company	Lines	Owned	Leased		Discontinued
Twenty-third Street Railway	23rd Street Crosstown Line	March 1890	April 25, 1893: leased to Houston	Lease kept by NY Railways	1936
Bleecker Street and Fulton Ferry Railroad	Bleecker Street Line and part of the 14th Street Crosstown Line		January 10, 1876: leased to 23rd April 25, 1893: leased to Houston	Lease kept by NY Railways	1917 (14th Street in 1936)
Forty-second Street and Grand Street Ferry Railroad	Part of the 14th Street Crosstown Line	March 1893	April 6, 1893: leased to Houston and Metropolitan Cross-Town	Lease kept by NY Railways	1936
Broadway and Seventh Avenue Railroad	Part of the Broadway Line and Seventh Avenue Line	June 1886	May 13, 1890: leased to Houston	Lease kept by NY Railways	1936
Central Crosstown Railroad	17th and 18th Streets Crosstown Line	May 1897	February 8, 1904: leased to Metropolitan	Operated under agreement by NY Railways	1913
Christopher and Tenth Street Railroad	Eighth Street Crosstown Line		April 26, 1890: leased to Central Crosstown February 8, 1904: leased to Metropolitan	Remained leased to Central Crosstown; operated under agreement by NY Railways	1936
Thirty-fourth Street Crosstown Railway	34th Street Crosstown Line	April 1893	December 21, 1896: operated by Metropolitan	Operated under agreement by NY Railways	1936
Sixth Avenue Railroad	Sixth Avenue Line, Lenox Avenue Line, and Sixth Avenue Ferry Line		February 1, 1892: leased to Houston	Lease kept by NY Railways	1936 (Ferry Line in 1919)
Ninth Avenue Railroad	Ninth and Amsterdam Avenues Line		March 12, 1892: leased to Houston	Lease kept by NY Railways until 1919	1935
Eighth Avenue Railroad	Eighth Avenue Line		November 23, 1895: leased to Metropolitan	Lease kept by NY Railways until 1919	1935
New York and Harlem Railroad	Fourth and Madison Avenues Line and 86th Street Crosstown Line		June 11, 1896: leased to Metropolitan	Lease kept by NY Railways until 1920 and reinstated in 1932	1935 (86th Street in 1936)
Houston, West Street and Pavonia Ferry Railroad	Avenue C Line	June 1886	December 12, 1893: merged into Metropolitan		1919
Chambers Street and Grand Street Ferry Railroad	Madison Street Line	June 1886	January 31, 1891: merged into Houston		1919
South Ferry Railroad	South Ferry and Vesey Street Line	January 1889	December 12, 1893: merged into Metropolitan		No idea
Broadway Railway	Broadway Line	October 1890	December 12, 1893: merged into Metropolitan		1936
Metropolitan Cross-Town Railway	Spring and Delancey Streets Line	March 1891	May 28, 1894: merged into Metropolitan		1931
Central Park, North and East River Railroad	East Belt Line, West Belt Line, and 59th Street Crosstown Line	August 1892 (minority)	October 14, 1892: leased to Houston and Metropolitan Cross-Town	Reorganized as the Belt Line Railway
Columbus and Ninth Avenue Railroad	Columbus Avenue Line	May 1893	November 12, 1895: merged into Metropolitan		1936
Lexington Avenue and Pavonia Ferry Railroad	Lexington Avenue Line	May 1893	May 28, 1894: merged into Metropolitan		1936
Fulton Street Railroad	Fulton Street Line	October 1895	February 19, 1896: operated by Metropolitan	Abandoned in 1908
Twenty-eighth and Twenty-ninth Streets Crosstown Railroad	28th and 29th Streets Crosstown Line	September 1896		Reorganized as the Mid-Crosstown Railway
Second Avenue Railroad	Second Avenue Line, First Avenue Line, and Astoria Line		January 28, 1898: leased to Metropolitan	Became independent
Third Avenue Railroad and its subsidiaries	Third Avenue Line and many others	March 1900	April 13, 1900: leased to Metropolitan	Reorganized as the Third Avenue Railway
Fort George and Eleventh Avenue Railroad	145th Street Crosstown Line	January 1898	November 1, 1905: operated by Metropolitan	Operated under agreement by NY Railways	No idea
New York City Interborough Railway	Many lines converging on Interborough Rapid Transit stations	1906		Became independent
Bridge Operating Company	Williamsburg Bridge Local	May 1904 (half)	June 21, 1907: operated by NYC Railway and Brooklyn Heights Railroad
Brooklyn and North River Railroad	Brooklyn and North River Line

Corporate/Financial/Corruption History

Why isn't there some discussion of the notorious corruption involving Tammany Hall, the Metropolitan, and its Wall Street promoters, especially Thomas Fortune Ryan and one of the Whitneys? It's not as if it isn't documented. DCDuring 15:08, 29 September 2007 (UTC)

IRT Affiliation?

I'm somewhat confused about companies like New York City Interborough Railway, Interborough-Metropolitan Company, and Interborough Consolidated Corporation; Was there any chance that these were affiliates of Interborough Rapid Transit Company that were also involved with the Long Island Rail Road affiliate known as the Long Island Consolidated Electrical Companies? ---------User:DanTD (talk) 14:11, 5 April 2014 (UTC)

I think you'd need to consider bankruptcy and the continuation of operations by a similarly named company. I don't know the best reference to sort it out. DCDuring (talk) 15:19, 5 April 2014 (UTC)

Green Lines

According to Dave's Rail Pics and other books and websites I've had contact with, this was the original Green Line in New York City. ---------User:DanTD (talk) 15:11, 28 December 2023 (UTC)