Brooklyn, Queens County and Suburban Railroad

The Brooklyn, Queens County and Suburban Railroad (BQC&S) was a street railway company in Brooklyn and Queens, New York, United States. It originated as a horsecar line until it was acquired by the Long Island Traction Company on November 24, 1893 and convert it into a subsidiary.^[1] The railroad was electrified in 1894.^[2]

Under the supervision of LITC, the BQC&S was placed in charge of other trolley lines which were also acquired by the LITC. These lines included the Yates Avenue and Flatbush Railroad and the extension of the Cypress Hills Line from 1883, Brooklyn, Bushwick and Queens County Railroad and Ralph Avenue Line from 1885, the North Second Street and Middle Village Railroad in 1870: along Metropolitan Avenue, the 1869 established Grand Street Ferry and Middle Village Railroad, the 1864 established Metropolitan Railroad along North 6th Street and Bushwick Avenue, the 1890-built Jamaica and Brooklyn Railroad bought in 1894, which included the Jamaica, Woodhaven and Brooklyn Railway, East New York and Jamaica Railroad, Jamaica and Brooklyn Plank Road, Long Island Electric Company (not to be confused with the Long Island Electric Railway), and the Jamaica and Woodhaven Plank Road. The railroad also built the Bergen Street Trolley Coach Depot,^[3] which today is the New York City Transit Sign Shop.

As with the rest of the LITC, it was acquired by the Brooklyn Rapid Transit Company on July 1, 1898.^[4]

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New York	BRT/BQT LICEC LIRR IRT Second Avenue Railroad Third Avenue Railway Sixth Avenue Railroad Broadway and Seventh Avenue Railway Eighth and Ninth Avenues Railway 14th Street Central Crosstown (17th & 18th Street Lines) 23rd Street 34th Street Crosstown 42nd Street & Grand Street Ferry 86th Street Babylon Railroad Bleecker Street & Fulton Ferry Bridge Operating Company BHRR NYR Brooklyn & North River Brooklyn, Queens County & Suburban Danbury & Harlem Fort George & Eleventh Avenue Grand Street and Newtown Greenpoint and Williamsburgh Hudson Avenue Houston, West Street & Pavonia Ferry Huntington Railroad/Traction Company Jamaica Central Railways Lenox Avenue Long Island Electric Railway Long Island Traction Company Manhattan Bridge 3¢ Manhattan & Queens Traction Nassau Railroad Nassau Electric Railroad New York Railways Company New York & Harlem Railroad New York & Long Island Traction New York & North Shore Traction New York and Queens County Railway New York and Queens Transit Corporation New York Interborough (IRT) Northport Traction Company Ocean Electric Railway Oscar City Railway Ossining Electric Railway Peekskill Lighting and Railroad Pelham Park and City Island Railway Putnam & Westchester Queensboro Bridge Richmond Light & Railroad Staten Island Electric Railroad Staten Island Horse Railroad Staten Island Midland Railway/Railroad Staten Island Traction Company Steinway Railway Suffolk Traction Union Railway (Bronx) Union Railroad (Brooklyn) West Farms & Westchester Westchester Electric Westchester Street Yonkers Railroad
New Jersey	North Hudson County Railway Public Service Coordinated Transport/Transport of New Jersey
Connecticut	Connecticut Company Consolidated Railway Bridgeport Traction Connecticut Railway & Lighting Danbury and Bethel Street Railway Greenwich Tramway Company New York and Stamford Railway

Current operations

New Jersey	Hudson–Bergen Light Rail Newark Light Rail River Line

Proposed operations

New York	Red Hook Staten Island 42nd Street Brooklyn–Queens Waterfront Lower Montauk
New Jersey	HBLR Northern Branch
Connecticut	New Haven

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New York	Bronx Brooklyn Manhattan Queens Staten Island Long Island Westchester
Nearby states	New Jersey (PSR lines) Connecticut

Other

Carhouses	New York City Bus garages MTA Bus garages Long Island Bus garages
Other	Other New York City transit