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Carpet Cleaning Manhattan BeachIn order for us to better service all our valued customers, we now offer Carpet Cleaning in Manhattan Beach (The Manhattan Beach area of Brooklyn).We understand our customers' needs for a quick response service and we always strive to meet those demands. So when it comes times for your next carpet cleaning, rug cleaning, rug repair, carpet re-stretching, couch and sofa cleaning in Manhattan Beach, make sure to call us first. Let us show you why we are the number one choice in Brooklyn. A little History of Manhattan Beach The origins of the New York and Manhattan Beach Railway system start in 1870 with the formation of the NY & Hempstead RR. This company hoped to build a line from the East River in Bay Ridge across Brooklyn to East NY and then to Valley Stream. It was thought, since Bay Ridge was the closest point to the busy New Jersey terminals of Elizabeth, Bayonne and Jersey City, that such a route would enable the company to provide cheaper freight rates than were charged by the other railroads. Much grading and excavating was done in 1871 to 1873, and in 1873 the company was leased by the South Side RR, which ran through Valley Stream. However, the financial panic of 1873 caused all work to cease on the project without a single rail having been laid. The project was restarted in 1875 when the NY, Bay Ridge and Jamaica RR Co. was created. The ROW that was laid out follows closely the present Bay Ridge branch of the LIRR from the East River to a point where it approaches the Canarsie line (then known as the Brooklyn and Rockaway Beach RR) near Linden Blvd. By the summer of 1876, the line was completed to Bath Junction at 62nd St. and New Utrecht Ave. where it crossed the Brooklyn, Bath and Coney Island RR (the predecessor of today’s West End subway line – B train). A temporary agreement was made between the two RR’s and in August, 1876 passenger trains started running from Bay Ridge to Coney Island, even though it was still thought that freight traffic would eventually be the primary business of the NYBR&J. In November, 1876 the NYBR&J was sold to Austin Corbin (later to become one of the most important figures in LIRR history) and was reorganized as the New York and Manhattan Beach Railway Co. Immediately the whole purpose of the new RR was changed from freight to passenger, in order to service Corbin’s proposed line to the site of his immense Manhattan Beach Hotel that was being constructed on the east end of Coney Island. In addition, Corbin decided that the NY&MB railway would be narrow gauge (3’ instead of the standard 4’8-1/2"), which meant that the rails already existing from Bay Ridge to Bath Junction had to be relaid. The branch to Manhattan Beach diverged from the main Bay Ridge line at Manhattan Beach Junction, and continued south on a ROW just east of the current Brighton line (at that time the Brooklyn, Flatbush and Coney Island RR). Corbin hoped that the Manhattan Beach line would draw passengers from both the Bay Ridge and East NY ends of the Bay Ridge line. On the East NY end, Corbin had negotiated a deal with the Brooklyn and Rockaway Beach RR to run his line all the way up to Atlantic Ave., using the outer edge of the latter’s ROW. The Metropolitan Hotel, on the corner of Fulton St. and Van Sinderen Ave. was used as the terminal station. On July 19, 1877 the new railroad opened with much fanfare. There were 13 trains a day each way from both Bay Ridge and East NY to Manhattan Beach. click HERE for an article from the Brooklyn Eagle of July 19, 1877 describing the event. |
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