TheLong Island Traction Company was astreet railwayholding company inBrooklyn andQueens,New York City,United States.

In order to get around anti-stock watering statutes, the owners of theBrooklyn City Rail Road, capitalized at $6 million, incorporated the Long Island Traction Company inWest Virginia in March 1893 with a capital of $30 million. The BCRR-controlled^[1]Brooklyn Heights Railroad, until then the operator of only the shortcable-operatedMontague Street Line, leased the BCRR on June 6, 1893.^[2][3][4] The Long Island Traction Company acquired theBroadway Railroad by May 1893,^[5] and incorporated theBrooklyn, Queens County and Suburban Railroad on November 24, 1893 to take it over, as well as theBroadway Ferry and Metropolitan Avenue Railroad andJamaica and Brooklyn Railroad.^[6] The increased capitalization was used to convert the companies fromhorse car totrolley operations.

The Long Island Traction Company wentbankrupt in mid-1895^[7] after a Januarystrike.^[8] TheBrooklyn Rapid Transit Company was incorporated January 18, 1896,^[9] and took over the LI Traction Company in early February.^[10]

From theBrooklyn City Rail Road^[11]

• Annex Line
• Bowery Bay Line
• Bushwick Line
• Calvary Cemetery Line
• Corona Line
• Court Street Line
• Crosstown Line
• Cypress Hills Line
• Flatbush Avenue Line
• Flushing Avenue Line
• Fulton Street Line
• Furman Street Line
• Gates Avenue Line
• Grand Street Line
• Greenpoint Line
• Hamilton Avenue Line
• Holy Cross Line
• Lorimer Street Line
• Lutheran Cemetery Line
• Meeker Avenue Line
• Myrtle Avenue Line
• Nostrand Avenue Line
• Putnam Avenue Line
• Richmond Hill Line
• Second Avenue Line
• Third Avenue Line
• Tompkins Avenue Line
• Union Avenue Line

From theBrooklyn Heights Railroad

• Montague Street Line

From theBroadway Railroad^[12]

• Broadway Line
• Cypress Hills Line
• Ralph Avenue Line
• Reid Avenue Line
• Sumner Avenue Line

From theBroadway Ferry and Metropolitan Avenue Railroad^[12]

• Lutheran Cemetery Branch
• Metropolitan Avenue Line

From theJamaica and Brooklyn Railroad^[12]

• Jamaica Line

• Predecessors of the Brooklyn–Manhattan Transit Corporation
• Streetcar lines in Brooklyn
• Streetcar lines in Queens, New York
• Defunct public transport operators in the United States
• Defunct New York (state) railroads