It was 50 years ago tomorrow when a fire in the vicinity of Manhattan Avenue and Box Street in the Greenpoint section of Brooklyn damaged the trolleybus overhead at that location and suspended trolleybus service onthe B-62 Graham Avenue trolleybus line north of Nassau Avenue. As a result of this fire, the Crosstown trolleybus yard, which handled the 78 trolleybuses for the Graham and Flushing Avenue trolleybus lines, was closed and the trolleybuses were moved to Bergen Street in Bedford-Stuyvesant, which handled the other 122 trolleybuses for the Cortelyou Road, Bergen Street, St. John's Place, Lorimer Street, and Tompkins Avenue trolleybus lines (the latter 2 serving Ebbets Field).
It was then decided that all 200 trolleybuses could be maintained and serviced at Bergen Street. Crosstown was not reopened when trolleybus service was restored; it was converted to a bus garage on Sunday, June 19, 1955.
