[Flatbush Avenue Extension at Prince Street, BMT Broadway Line, Brooklyn, NY]
Intersection of Prince Street and Flatbush Avenue Extension, Brooklyn, NY. Survey photograph during construction of the BMT Broadway line. Northward view of trolley car #748 on the Brooklyn and North River Railroad Brooklyn and North River Line. Also showing the Manhattan Bridge, the tracks of the BMT Myrtle Avenue elevated line, and multiple advertisements.
New York Transit MuseumThe cobblestoned Flatbush Avenue Extension, at Prince Street, February 8, 1915.
The Manhattan Bridge is visible in the distance, with the Myrtle Avenue El visible in the middle ground. Below Flatbush Avenue, construction continued on the subway connection between the Manhattan Bridge tracks BMT Brighton Line. The DeKalb Avenue Station, south of this point, opened in June, 1915.
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