Vintage Film 2 -Brooklyn Trolleys

There's some discrepancy as to weather these are all 30's or if some parts are 40's. Some commenters' say these are during the last years of the Brooklyn trolley cars.

Not sure weather its there any longer, some photos from this flickr user, in Red Hook.

Abandoned Trolley Car found in Red Hook, Brooklyn,

originally uploaded by themechanism.

And a context shot-

Sun-Kissed Trolley, originally uploaded by mkaggen.

Or a shot from above -here-

Now in San Francisco, this Flickr member says that this car was painted with the New York Paint scheme, but it actually serviced Philadelphia:

San Francisco: Streetcar, originally uploaded by sowellman.

Brooklyn Trolley Outline

As I think I've said before, the goal of this blog of mine is to gather info on all transportation, all history, and while were at it, future bits and pieces that will indicate, my thesis is, indicate how New York City has evolved. Hopefully I'll get maps of where the streets and buildings were every 50 to a hundred years and eventually make maps showing the progress of the city. What is most interesting to me is the progression and/or regression of the transit system.

The Second Avenue Sagas post on this particular article finds a connection to the past within a concept in the future, and an entire map of proposed trolley routes through Brooklyn that would locally serve the borough where the subway lines miss it.
2nd Ave. Sagas: Future Travel: A Desire Named Streetcar

Manahatta

If you have time, you have to go to the Museum of the City of New York, and see the exhibit about how The island of Manhattan would have looked in the year 1609. From assembled maps, mainly from the British army I think. The project I think also has a book. This is the root of everything I wish this blog to be:  

THE MANAHATTA PROJECT 

Go there and find an interactive map displaying the marshes, hills, forests, lakes, streams, and the natural sculpting of the island before the landfill. You can find any address there and see what was once there, before the west came and "civilized" it. 

Dr. Sanderson on in interview on wnyc's Leonard Lopate Show, says he believes it the island of Manahatta were preserved today, it would be one of the nation's greatest national parks. I could go on and on, but to do that I'd have to read on and on, there is so much information in the site! I imagine I will continue to read or reference this document:

“Mannahatta: an ecological first look at the Manhattan landscape prior to Henry Hudson.” Northeastern Naturalist 14(4): 545-570. pdf