Dec. 19, birthdays for Jake Gyllenhaal, Alyssa Milano, Rob Portman
Brooklyn Today
ON THIS DAY in 1910, the Brooklyn Daily Eagle published an article titled “Three-Cent Fare Line Makes New Proposition for a Five-Mile Road.”
The article focused on a new proposition that would provide a “short haul at a low fare.”
“An entirely new proposition was placed before Public Service Commission this afternoon by the Manhattan Bridge Three-Cent Fare Line, which was originally organized about a year ago to operate a street railroad five miles in length from the Flatbush Avenue depot of the Long Island Railroad across the new Manhattan Bridge and the lower part of the Manhattan to the Hudson River,” the Eagle reported.
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