The Lost Street Cars of New York City | The Story of American trolleys - IT'S HISTORY

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» SOURCES
https://www.nytimes.com/1975/07/09/archives/last-trolleys-rolled-in-the-city-in-1957.html
https://forgotten-ny.com/category/trolleys/
https://www.villagepreservation.org/2016/04/06/last-stop-for-trolleys-in-nyc-1957/#:~:text=The%20horse%2Ddrawn%20streetcar%20debuted,and%20the%20Bowery%20in%20Manhattan.&text=In%201883%20New%20York%20City's,scene%20of%20all%20five%20boroughs.
https://www.fastcompany.com/3056341/a-brief-history-of-streetcars-in-nyc#:~:text=The%20first%20streetcars%20in%20New,poop%20was%20a%20major%20problem.
http://www.brooklynrail.net/info_streetcar.html
http://www.columbia.edu/~brennan/abandoned/qborobr.html
http://www.rrpicturearchives.net/archiveThumbs.aspx?id=32001&Page=1

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