It owned and operated a system in Lower Manhattan, and became part of the Metropolitan Street Railway.
The Avenue C Railroad was chartered June 3, 1874[citation needed] (or December 18, 1868 [1]), and its original line, the Avenue C Line from the Green Point Ferry at the foot of East 10th Street mainly along Avenue C, Houston Street, and West Street to the Pavonia Ferry at the foot of Chambers Street, opened on October 18, 1869.
[3] On June 3, 1874,[1] it was merged with the Broadway and Seventh Avenue Railroad to form the Houston, West Street and Pavonia Ferry Railroad.
The Metropolitan Street Railway became independent in 1908; the Central Park, North and East River Railroad was separated (and later acquired by the Third Avenue Railway), while the other companies stayed with it.
The Houston, West Street and Pavonia Ferry Railroad operated the following lines: