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Simple "family tree"

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Evolution of the Metropolitan's lines

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Houston, West Street and Pavonia Ferry Railroad, Broadway and Seventh Avenue Railroad, and Chambers Street and Grand Street Ferry Railroad, June 1886
South Ferry Railroad, March 1889
Twenty-third Street Railway and Bleecker Street and Fulton Ferry Railroad, March 1890
Broadway Railway, October 1890
Metropolitan Crosstown Railway, March 1891
Sixth Avenue Railroad, February 1892
Ninth Avenue Railroad, March 1892
Central Park, North and East River Railroad, October 1892
Forty-second Street and Grand Street Ferry Railroad, March 1893
Thirty-fourth Street Ferry and Eleventh Avenue Railroad, April 1893
Lexington Avenue and Pavonia Ferry Railroad, May 1893
Columbus and Ninth Avenue Railroad, May 1893
Fulton Street Railroad, November 1895
Eighth Avenue Railroad, November 1895
  • Eighth Avenue Line
  • Combinations:
    • extended to South Ferry, moved to West Broadway, using South Ferry Railway, Bleecker Street and Fulton Ferry Railroad, Metropolitan Crosstown Railway, Broadway and Seventh Avenue Railroad, Central Park, North and East River Railroad (West Broadway between Vesey and Fulton)
    • Canal Street Crosstown Line
New York and Harlem Railroad City Line, June 1896
Twenty-eighth and Twenty-ninth Streets Crosstown Railroad, October 1896
Second Avenue Railroad, January 1898
Third Avenue Railroad, One Hundred and Twenty-fifth Street Railroad, Forty-Second Street, Manhattanville and St. Nicholas Avenue Railroad, Dry Dock, East Broadway and Battery Railroad, and Kingsbridge Railway, April 1900
Central Crosstown Railroad and Christopher and Tenth Street Railroad, February 1904

Post-bankruptcy history

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Stayed with New York Railways
Third Avenue Railway
Eighth and Ninth Avenues Railway
Other independent companies
Abandoned