Trolley cars were the basic public transportation in Brooklyn for much of the last century. Indeed, the Brooklyn Dodgers were originally the Brooklyn Trolley Dodgers, so named for Brooklynites leaping aside from oncoming trolley cars. (I didn't know that!)
The first urban light rail system began operations in New York City in 1832—two years before Brooklyn was incorporated into a city itself—as a small, boxy car pulled by horses over rails embedded in the street.
https://brooklyntrolley.org/
The best place to look, I think, is The Branford Trolley Museum in Branford/East Haven, CT. Fun place to take the children. Ride on old streetcars, picnic and roam through the rolling stock in the barns.
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