Did a train ever go over the Brooklyn Bridge?

They did go on the Brooklyn Bridge for many years, chiefly in the first decades of the last century. Trains from the Fulton, Fifth Avenue, Lexington Avenue and Myrtle Avenue Elevated lines went across the Brooklyn Bridge to the Park Row terminal near City Hall.



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