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XVIII p 478 "An Ordinary Evening in New Haven"

Wallace Stevens

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The Eastern District of Brooklyn by Armbruster 1912

from Pratt Library 974.72 - A72

p 104 - 105

"The Myrtle Avenue and Jamaica Plank Road Company was incorporated in 1853. The road was five and a half miles in length extending from Broadway to the Jamaica and Brooklyn Plank Road. It was seventy feet wide, with two planked tracks, each nine feet wide and in the center earth grade track of the same width. The road was opened in 1854.

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The distance from Brooklyn City Hall to Jamaica via the road was nine and a quarter miles."

p 106

The Myrtle Ave. line ran to Broadway in the same year, (1855 - horse car lines.)

The trolley cars took the place of horse cars in 1894.

p 166 "Myrtle Ave and Jamaica Plank Road is now part of Myrtle Avenue. Myrtle street is now part of Willoughly Ave"

p 183 In 1832 streets began to be laid out. A century ago Myrtle Street (that would be 1812) extended short distance from the main road of the Brooklyn settlement. In 1835 this street was continued as Myrtle Avenue, graded and paved to the Cripplebrush Road, affording a new route between Wallabout Village and Brooklyn. About 1852 Myrtle Ave was extended to Broadway and two years later the Brooklyn City Railroad, having bought