Twenty-Third Street Railway $1000 gold bond certificate 1912 (New York)

Tough to find NYC streetcar company. Fantastic trolley and street scene vignette. Vertical format. Nice $1000 underprint in orange. Issued and cancelled. Dated 1912 from text.  Folds from storage. Measuring approximately 14 x 10 inches.

The Twenty-Third Street Railway, a street railway originally operated as horse cars and later electric traction, was chartered on January 29, 1872.

Its track ran along 23rd Street between 13th Avenue at the Hudson River and the East River east of Avenue A, with a depot on the north side of 23rd Street between 13th and 11th Avenues. The railway leased the Bleecker Street and Fulton Ferry Railroad, which went from 14th Street on the Hudson River to Fulton Ferry on the East River.

In 1893, the Twenty-third Street Railway was leased to the Houston, West Street and Pavonia Ferry Railroad, which in turn was consolidated into the Metropolitan Street Railway on December 12, 1893.

The Metropolitan Street Railway was leased by the Interurban Street Railway on April 1, 1902, and the latter went bankrupt six years later. The Metropolitan Street Railway separated on July 31, 1908, becoming the 23rd Street crosstown bus route.

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