The Adams Street and Boerum Place Line was a public transit line in Downtown Brooklyn, New York City, United States, running along Boerum Place and Adams Street.
It served as access for the Atlantic Avenue Railroad to the City Hall area.
In 1873, the New York State Legislature passed a law authorizing the Atlantic Avenue Railroad, which included tracks through Atlantic Avenue from South Ferry to Flatbush Avenue, to build a branch north on Boerum Place and Adams Street to Front and Water Streets, where it would run to Fulton Ferry, using Water Street westbound and Front Street eastbound.
[1][2][3] After some delay caused by disagreements over the grade of the street[4] and an injunction from the DeKalb Avenue Line over the use of its tracks in Front and Fulton Streets,[5] the new line opened on May 13, 1874.
[10][11] The line was changed to electric trolley operations on July 10, 1893.