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Southern Brooklyn Pols Slam Mayor’s Street Car Plan: ‘Transportation Must Benefit All NYers’

Image via Friends of Brooklyn Queens Connector. Elected officials slammed the mayor’s plan to build a fancy streetcar [/31635/] along the East River waterfront for offering further proof the city is willfully neglecting the transportation needs of southern Brooklyn residents. Following Mayor Bil de Blasio’s State of the

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Norton’s Point Streetcar Shuttle Rides Again… Well, On YouTube

We found this incredible video of the Norton’s Point Shuttle trolley crisscrossing its way through Bay 19th Street to Coney Island. The old streetcar line, abandoned in 1935 and briefly resurrected in June of 1943, offers a glimpse of the old trolley-dodging days that represented the fabric of people’