The Hudson Avenue Line was a horse car street railway line in Brooklyn, New York City, United States, running mostly along Hudson Avenue in Vinegar Hill, near Downtown Brooklyn.
It was short-lived, operating only from 1867 to 1871, but its trackage rights over the Brooklyn City Rail Road allowed the Atlantic Avenue Railroad to operate South Ferry-Prospect Park cars for many years.
[5] However, this did not draw enough traffic from the Bridge Street Ferry to turn a profit, and it shut down for the winter.
[6] In mid-1869, the Brooklyn and Jamaica Railway (Atlantic Avenue Line) leased the Hudson Avenue Railroad,[2][7] in part to use its Brooklyn City Rail Road trackage rights to reach Prospect Park from South Ferry;[8] cars to the Bridge Street Ferry began operating again in August.
[9] The track was removed by the city in 1871 to build a sewer, and was never relaid.