Banker Austin Corbin incorporated the New York and Manhattan Beach Railway on October 24, 1876, to build a branch of this line to Manhattan Beach and extend it beyond East New York to Greenpoint and Hunter's Point. Corbin gained control of the New York, Bay Ridge and Jamaica Railroad on November 15, 1876.
Austin Corbin founded the New York and Manhattan Beach Railway on October 24, 1876, with the aim of building a new line to Manhattan Beach and extending it further east to Greenpoint and Hunter's Point. Later that year, he gained control of the New York, Bay Ridge and Jamaica Railroad on November 15.