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The Meeker and Marcy Avenues Line was a public transit line in Brooklyn, New York City, running along Marcy Avenue, Metropolitan Avenue, Graham Avenue, and Meeker Avenue from Fulton Street in Bedford-Stuyvesant to Penny Bridge in Williamsburg. The line was owned by the Grand Street and Newtown Railroad. [1]

The line was replaced by the B29 bus on April 17, 1939, and was absorbed into the B24 bus route (formerly the Calvary Cemetery Line) on June 30, 1949.

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References

  1. "One More Line - To Be Added to the City Railroad's List". Brooklyn Daily Eagle . April 7, 1890. p. 6 via newspapers.com.