Quote Originally Posted by dtowncitylover View Post
Maybe NYC should try to build a streetcar lines up Broadway and 5th Ave? Let's see how that works!
The streetcar lines in Manhattan were all largely replaced by subway system expansions [[with the exception of Second Avenue).

There has been talk in NYC about restoring the street car service between Queens and downtown Brooklyn. There used to be street car lines connecting the boroughs and it was very heavily used, but they were dismantled during the era of the Great American Streetcar scandal. Some people believe that's why those two boroughs, which are the two most geographically close boroughs in the entire city, feel so distant -- the options for traveling by public transit between the two are cumbersome, but it wasn't always that way.