Brooklyn streetcar advocate, Bob Diamond, passed away

Forwarded from Mike:

https://www.nytimes.com/2021/08/28/nyregion/bob-diamond-dead.html

http://brooklynrail.net/contact.html

It’s strange: I was in Red Hook just a week ago and found derelict PCC 3303, still carrying a Lenox Street rollsign (line 43?), on the waterfront.

Not the way I like coincidences to go, though.

How could the Old Grey Lady print a line like ‘photographed behind the wheel of a trolley car’?

More from Mike:

Bob Diamond on Youtube

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qO2J7seX2A8

https://www.youtube.com/user/bowtrolley/videos

2014 Newsweek article “The Fight to Find John Wilkes Booth’s Diary in a Forgotten Subway Tunnel”