![]() Several different maps were published coinciding with the opening of the IRT subway in 1904 and its Brooklyn extension in 1905.Brooklyn Survey Map - Trolley Lines (1888), Rockaway and Jamaica Bay Area Detail, New York and Rockaway Beach Railroad.Brooklyn Survey Map - Trolley Lines (1888), Prospect Park to Canarsie Detail, showing Bay Ridge branch LIRR.Brooklyn Survey Map - Trolley Lines (1888), Jamaica Area Detail.Brooklyn Survey Map - Trolley Lines (1888), Coney Island Area Detail.Brooklyn Survey Map - Trolley Lines (1888).Polyconic projection, North American datum. Surveyed in 1888- in cooperation with the State of New York." / "Edition of Feb.1900, reprinted 1948. Coast and Geodetic Survey, N.Y.City Government, S.H.Bodfish, Frank Sutton, and J.W.Thom. "State of New York - Represented by the Department of Public Works". The map is labeled as follows: "United States Department of the Interior Geological Survey". ![]() Railways and trolley rights-of-way are noted. Our first map is a scan of a USGS survey map of southern Brooklyn, originally drafted in 1888.
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