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NEW YORK OMNIBUS 2629 · Posted: Thu Oct 29, 2026 12:16 am Post subject:

Hard to believe........

In just a few more days, it will be 70 years since the last (PCC) streetcars clanged and clattered along the streets of Brooklyn.
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Today, in 2026 Brooklyn has been without electric streetcars longer than it operated them.

And it's nows nearly 70 years since the last Brooklyn trolleybuses hummed along.........

"NYO"

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NEW YORK OMNIBUS 2629 · Posted: Sat Oct 31, 2026 5:12 pm Post subject:

......B&QT PCC #1039 was the very last streetcar to operate on Church Avenue.

Bu this late date, only two streetcar lines remained out of the once-vast network that once crisscrossed the borough,

The only actie car house then was the 9th Avenue depot............

"NYO"

["LAST SOP"]

NEW YORK OMNIBUS 2629 · Posted: Sat Oct 31, 2026 5:31 pm Post subject:

When the future looked bright and assured..................

https://www.nycsubway.org/perl/show?115226

(courtesy:nycsubway.org)

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NEW YORK OMNIBUS 2629 · Posted: Sat Oct 31, 2026 5:36 pm Post subject:

Two iconic remiders of a lost Brooklyn...................

https://www.nycsubway.org/perl/show?140831

(courtesy:nycsubway.org)

["1000"]

W.B. Fishbowl · Posted: Sat Oct 31, 2026 10:23 pm Post subject:

NEW YORK OMNIBUS 2629 · Posted: Sat Oct 31, 2026 11:20 pm Post subject:

W.B.:

That gloomy weather indeed "set the stage", if you will.

The downfall of "clsssic Brooklyn",IMHO, began in 1956, when the last streetca rsrn,

Then,,,,,,,,,,,,,

1957:

The Dodger moev to "El-Ay"

1958:

The last open platfom BMT "BU" El cars are retired.

1960:

Yje last trolleybuses are replaced by Fishbowls.

1964:

The 69th Street Ferry shuts down.

Circa-1965:

Steeplechase Park at Coney Island closess.

1969:

A "double whammy" year: the last "Broadway Battleships"(Standards) are retired; the "Moit" closes, spelling doom for the wooden "Q" cars..................

"NYO"

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["B&QT"]

NEW YORK OMNIBUS 2629 · Posted: Tue Nov 03, 2026 4:59 pm Post subject:

Amid the silence and the shadows, the end was drawing ever nearer........... Wink

https://www.nycsubway.org/perl/show?30800

(courtesy:nysubway.org)

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NEW YORK OMNIBUS 2629 · Posted: Wed Nov 04, 2026 1:08 am Post subject:

Curious asto what replced the last streetcars in Brooklyn......."Kramdens" or "Pattons"..................

"NYO"

["NYCTA"]

W.B. Fishbowl · Posted: Wed Nov 04, 2026 4:27 am Post subject:

W.B. Fishbowl · Posted: Wed Nov 04, 2026 4:30 am Post subject:

NEW YORK OMNIBUS 2629 · Posted: Wed Nov 04, 2026 11:42 am Post subject:

W.B.:

So,,,,it was the swaggering, lumbering "Pattons" that replaced the last PCCs.....thanksfor the info......... Wink

"NYO"

["MACK"]

NEW YORK OMNIBUS 2629 · Posted: Wed Nov 04, 2026 11:53 am Post subject:

Going by the autos, this Brooklyn street scene appears to date to the early 196-s........................

https://www.nycsubway.org/perl/show?156394

(courtesy:nycsubway.org)

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NEW YORK OMNIBUS 2629 · Posted: Wed Nov 04, 2026 2:40 pm Post subject:

......still thinking on that photo in "NEW YOK CITY TRANSIT MEMORIES", showing new "Jetson" Fishbowls about to replace the old B&QT trolleybuses in 1960; that Brooklyn was then basically a "blue collar" area, one MIGHT think that the electricc coaches would be replaced by the more "appropriate"Old Looks and MACKS.

In 1960, flashy new "Jetsons" would have been more "at home" on a "tony" Manhattan route, than running in working-class Brooklyn.

Obviously, this was a "replace the old with the shiny and new" publicity event for the "Tee-Yay"............

"NYO"

['GENERAL MOTORS"]

W.B. Fishbowl · Posted: Wed Nov 04, 2026 7:47 pm Post subject:

NEW YORK OMNIBUS 2629 · Posted: Wed Nov 04, 2026 8:48 pm Post subject:

W.B.

Appreciate the info.

IMHO, regarding non-Old Look-type buses, ""Dangerfields: would have seen more appropriate for Brooklyn, at least at the onset, having more of a stolid "working class" look than a flashy Fishbowl............

"NYO"

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