• The flat south central portion of the New York City borough of Brooklyn has a set of lettered avenues. Improved public transport brought urban sprawl to...
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  • Beach Park, and alternating with the numbered avenues from Bensonhurst and New Utrecht. List of Brooklyn thoroughfares List of lettered Brooklyn avenues...
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    be: List of lettered Brooklyn avenues. The Antelope Valley has a similar system, but with streets in between (e.g. Avenue J-8) taking the name of the...
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    Bensonhurst, Brooklyn List of Brooklyn streets List of lettered Brooklyn avenues Kirk Semple (2013-06-08). "A guide to the new immigrant enclaves of New York...
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  • Apart from the portion of 3rd through 7th Avenues beyond 86th Street, the numbered avenues run approximately 40 degrees west of south, but by local custom...
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    southeast, and numbered avenues going approximately northeast to southwest. East of Dahill Road, lettered avenues (like Avenue M) run east and west, and...
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    Avenue in the name: Myrtle Avenue on the BMT Jamaica Line and Myrtle–Wyckoff Avenues on the BMT Myrtle Avenue Line, both in Brooklyn. It also stops at two...
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    part of the New York City borough of Brooklyn. It is bounded on the north by the Bay Ridge Branch tracks just above Avenue I and by the Brooklyn College...
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    the northernmost neighborhood in the New York City borough of Brooklyn, in the U.S. state of New York. It is bordered on the southwest by Williamsburg...
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    at Marcy Avenue, which was originally a local stop. In 1961, with the arrival of new subway cars which featured rollsigns with new lettered designations...
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    Island, Brooklyn, via Second Avenue and Broadway in Manhattan, the south side of the Manhattan Bridge, and the BMT Brighton Line in Brooklyn. Daytime...
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    The New York City Subway system has 28 lettered or numbered route designations. The 1, C, G, L, M, R, and W trains are fully local, making all stops. The...
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    Streets) and southeastern Brooklyn's general street grid (comprising lettered avenues from East 1st to East 108th Streets). There are three streets between...
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    96th Street on the Upper East Side of Manhattan instead of 71st Avenue in Queens. The R was originally the Brooklyn–Manhattan Transit Corporation's 2 service...
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    B1 (New York City bus) (category Bus routes in Brooklyn)
    due to its sparse population. It was one of the first bus routes in Brooklyn. Initially, the routes were lettered A, B, and C. They were feeder routes for...
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    refers to the physical trackage used by trains that are used by numbered or lettered "services"; the services that run on certain lines change periodically...
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    Village in the New York City borough of Manhattan. Its name comes from Avenues A, B, C, and D, the only avenues in Manhattan to have single-letter names...
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  • B Division (New York City Subway) (category Brooklyn–Manhattan Transit Corporation)
    consists of the lines that operate with lettered services (A, B, C, D, E, F, G, J, L, M, N, Q, R, W, and Z), as well as the Franklin Avenue and Rockaway...
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    New York City Subway nomenclature (category History of the New York City Subway)
    over. Each section of the system is assigned a unique line name, usually paired with its original operating company or division: Brooklyn–Manhattan Transit...
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    Rockaway Park Shuttle (category CS1 maint: numeric names: authors list)
    Like the other two shuttles, 42nd Street in Manhattan and Franklin Avenue in Brooklyn, it is marked with the letter "S" and its route bullet is colored...
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    Pelham Bay Park station (category CS1 maint: multiple names: authors list)
    Division standards so lettered trains could use the line. As part of the plan, this station would no longer be the line's terminal. Because of the 1975 New York...
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    Avenue on the west side. There are several intermittent avenues east of First Avenue, including four additional lettered avenues running from Avenue A...
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    The Horror at Red Hook (category Brooklyn in fiction)
    "The Horror at Red Hook". Robert Suydam A "lettered recluse of ancient Dutch family, possessed originally of barely independent means, and inhabiting the...
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    would be four additional lettered avenues running from Avenue A eastward to Avenue D. Some of the avenues, such as Twelfth Avenue, ran through land that...
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    station occupied an 8-acre (3.2 ha) plot bounded by Seventh and Eighth Avenues and 31st and 33rd Streets in Midtown Manhattan. As the station shared its...
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    subway expansions since then. In 1985, with the subway's elimination of double-lettered routes, the map also drastically changed; routes on the maps became...
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    Jackie Robinson (category Brooklyn Dodgers players)
    he started at first base for the Brooklyn Dodgers on April 15, 1947. The Dodgers signing Robinson heralded the end of racial segregation in professional...
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    Paul Martin (illustrator) (category National Academy of Design alumni)
    landing on June 21, 1944. c. lettered in three sports at Rider College (1946–48). d. worked as a sportswriter for The Daily Item of Port Chester, N.Y. (1948–49)...
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    maintains two separate fleets of passenger cars: one for the A Division (numbered) routes, the other for the B Division (lettered) routes. All A Division equipment...
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