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English: A 1912 map from the Historical Guide to the City of New York, showing roads and rail lines ("tracks and routes") in what was then the Town of Newtown, now western Queens. Highlighted are streetcar lines, in the colors of their current bus routes on the Queens bus map. In pink is the former Corona Line (parallel to the LIRR Port Washington Branch) which was abandoned and not replaced by a bus line. The thick brown line is the northern segment of the current BMT Myrtle Avneue subway line.

The routes are as follows: Q19 (Flushing Avenue Line; light blue) - Astoria to Bowery Bay (North Beach resorts; now LaGuardia Airport) via Astoria Boulevard
Q54 (Metropolitan Avenue Line; purple) - Middle Village to Williamsburg, Brooklyn (later extended to Jamaica)
Q55 (Richmond Hill Line/Myrtle Avenue East; red) - Ridgewood/Bushwick to Richmond Hill
Q59 (Grand Street Line; gold) - Corona/Elmhurst to Williamsburg via Grand Avenue/Grand Street
Q66 (Northern Boulevard/Jackon Avenue; red) - Long Island City (Hunters Point) to Flushing
Q67 (Cemetery Route; gold) - Long Island City to Calvary Cemetery, Maspeth (later extended to Middle Village)
Q101 (Steinway Street Line; green) - Long Island City to Bowery Bay
Q102 (31st Street Line; dark blue) - Long Island City to Astoria (later extended to Roosevelt Island)
Q103 (Vernon Boulevard Line; red) - Long Island City to Astoria
Q104 (Broadway Line; purple) - Astoria to Woodside
B24 (Calvary Cemetery Line; light green) - Calvalry Cemetery to Greenpoint, Brooklyn (later combined with Meeker-Marcy Line to Downtown Brooklyn)
B54 (Myrtle Avenue Line (west); dark blue) - Ridgewood/Bushwick to Downtown Brooklyn

B57 (Flushing Avenue Line; red) - Maspeth to Brooklyn
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Source Historical guide to the city of New York, Rev. ed., comp. by Frank Bergen Kelley from original observations and contributions made by members and friends of the City history club of New York; with seventy maps and diagrams and forty-eight illustrations. (New York, Frederick A. Stokes company, 1913)
Author Frank Bergen Kelley et. al. (Map)
Tdorante10 (Cropping and highlighting)

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