615 South Ferry and Prospect Park Railroad Company. D 622 The South Side Railroad Company of Long Island. 623 Speer's Quick Transit Company.. 624 The Spuyten Duyvil and Port Morris Railroad Company. 627 The Staten Island and Northern Railroad Company.. 644 Staten Island Terminal Electric Railroad Company. 647 Steinway and Hunter's Point Railroad Company.. 652 The Tenth Avenue and Grand Street Ferry Rail Road Company. 653 The Terminal Railroad and Tunnel Company. 654 Terminal Underground Railroad Company. 655 The Third Avenue and Fordham Rail Road Company. 656 Third Avenue Bridge Company. 659 The Thirty Eighth and Thirty Ninth Street Crosstown Railroad Company.. II-18 1308 1315 660 The Thirty-first Street Railway Company. Chart Page 1316 661 Thirty-fourth Street Crosstown Railway Company. 662 The Thirty-fourth Street Ferry and Eleventh Avenue Railroad Company... 663 Thirty-fourth Street Railroad Company. 664 Thirty-ninth Street, Brooklyn Ferry and Suburban Railroad 669 The Twenty-eighth and Thirtieth Streets Railroad Company. 670 Twenty-eighth and Twenty-ninth Streets Crosstown Railroad Company... 671 The 28th and 29th Street Crosstown Railway Company. 673 The Twenty-third Street District Railway Company. 674 The Twenty-Third Street Ferry and Newtown Railroad Com 677 Underground Railroad Company of the City of New York. I-31 1316 1-32 1319 I-30 1320 1321 1322 1322 1323 1323 I-27 1324 I-26 1324 1327 I-28 1328 1331 1331 1332 I-8 1332 1334 IV-64 1335 1338 1342 681 Union Rail Road Company of the City of Brooklyn. IV-52 1342 682 The Union Rail Road Company of Westchester County, State of New York.......... 690 The Van Brunt Street and Erie Basin Rail Road Company. . . . 691 Van Nest, West Farms & Westchester Traction Company. 693 Wall and Cortlandt Street Ferries Railway Company. 696 West Brooklyn Electric Railway Company. 697 West Brooklyn Railroad Company. 698 The Westchester and Long Island Tunnel Railroad Company... 699 The Westchester and Williams Bridge Traction Company. 1372 IV-41 1373 1373 1374 1374 700 The Westchester County and New York City Railroad Company.. 705 The Westchester Railway Company. 706 West Eighty-sixth Street Railway Company 707 West Farms & Westchester Traction Company. 710 West Side Elevated (Patented) Railway Company (of New York City)... 711 West Side Railroad Company of New York City. Chart Page 1384 1385 1385 II-39 1385 1387 1387 1388 II-31 1388 II-1 1389 VI-28 1391 II-2 1391 1393 1393 III-19 1394 V-43 1395 II-37 1396 1397 1398 IV-27 1399 726 The Yonkers Rapid Transit Railway Company, New York Division.. VI-31 1406 721 Yates Avenue and Flatbush Railroad Company.. 722 The Yonkers and New York Rail Road Company. 723 Yonkers Railroad Company. 725 The Yonkers Rapid Transit Railway Company. DOCUMENTARY HISTORY OF RAILROAD COMPANIES I The Astoria and Hunter's Point Railroad Company Incorporation. April 23, 1867; chapter 662, laws of 1867; for the purpose of constructing a single or double track street railroad, to be operated by horse power; capital stock, $100,000, which may be increased to $200,000; route, as follows: From Astoria ferry through Fulton and Main streets, Newtown avenue, Crescent street, Grand, Second, Pierce and First avenues, Ridge road, Academy street, Paynter, Harris and East avenues, East Sixth street and West Sixth street, West avenue, West Third and Front streets, to West Second street (now Borden avenue) near the Long Island Railroad ferry. Charter amended April 27, 1868, by chapter 411, laws of 1868; change of route authorized from Wilbur avenue along Academy and Jane streets or old Astoria road, and Jackson avenue to ferry at Hunter's Point; May 21, 1872, by chapter 789, laws of 1872, extension authorized from Jackson avenue along Thompson avenue to easterly limits of Long Island City. Special franchises. Franchise granted by village of Astoria, June 28, 1867. Right to construct and operate road as provided for in amendment to charter, April 27, 1868, obtained by the consent of the Hunter's Point, Newtown & Flushing Turnpike Company, by agreements dated March 10 and September 30, 1868. Stock and bonds. Original charter permitted issue of bonds to the amount of $50,000. Charter amendment, May 21, 1872, provided for $100,000 increase of capital stock and a bond issue of $50,000 secured on the new branch of the railroad. Intercorporate relations. (See also chart III, no. 12.) Propcrty and franchise sold under foreclosure August 15, 1875, and transferred by deed October 19, 1876, to Alexander H. Stevens and James Tisdale, trustees; transferred by Stevens, sole supervising trustee, January 28, 1880, to the reorganized Astoria and Hunter's Point Rail Road Company (see no. 2). |
