This is a list of manhole cover markings found in New York City.
Markings
- Bell System
- BECo = Brooklyn Edison Company
- BHRR = Brooklyn Heights Railroad
- BMT = Brooklyn-Manhattan Transit Corporation
- BPB = Borough President Brooklyn
- BPM = Borough President Manhattan
- BQT = Brooklyn and Queens Transit Corporation
- BRT = Brooklyn Rapid Transit
- BS = Bureau of Sewers
- BSBQ = Bureau of Sewers, Borough of Queens
- BSBQ = Borough Superintendent of the Borough of Queens
- CIBRR = Coney Island and Brooklyn Railroad
- ConEdison = Consolidated Edison
- Con Edison Co. = Consolidated Edison
- Conrail = Consolidated Rail Corporation
- Croton Water = Croton Aqueduct
- CT&ES Co. = Consolidated Telegraph & Electrical Subway Company
- CWSCo. = Citizens Water Supply Company of Newtown
- DCW = Brooklyn Department of City Works
- DEP = Department of Environmental Protection
- DPW = Department of Public Works
- DWS = Department of Water Supply
- ECS Co. LIM = Empire City Subway Company Limited (also abbreviated as ECS Co LTD)
- EDISON = Edison
- EEICo. = Edison Electric Illuminating Company
- FDNY = FDNY
- GAS = Brooklyn Union Gas
- HPFS = High Pressure Fire Service
- IRT = Interborough Rapid Transit
- JWS = Jamaica Water Supply Company of New York
- KCEL&PC = Kings County Electric Light and Power Company
- KCR Co. = Kings County Refrigerating Co. [Gansevoort Market area]
- LIC = Long Island City
- LIRR = Long Island Rail Road
- LIWSCo. = Long Island Water Supply Company
- MRCoNY = Manhattan Refrigerating Co. [Gansevoort Market area]
- NY&NJTCo. = New York & New Jersey Telephone Company
- NY&QEL&PCo = New York & Queens Electric Light & Power Company
- NYCTA = New York City Transit Authority
- NYCTS = New York City Transit System
- NYC & HRRR = New York Central & Hudson River Railroad
- NYM = New York Municipal Railway Corporation
- NYRT = New York Rapid Transit Corporation
- NYTCo. = New York Telephone Company
- PSC IRT = Public Service Commission-Interborough Rapid Transit
- PSC MRC = Public Service Commission-Metropolitan Railway Company
- QMT = Queens Midtown Tunnel
- RT NYC = Rapid Transit New York City
- RT NYRT = New York Rapid Transit Corporation
- RTS = Rapid Transit Subway Construction Company
- RTS NYC = Rapid Transit System New York City
- STEALTH COMM = Stealth Communications
- WSNY = Water Supply of New York
References
- Forgotten NY: manhole
- "World Sewer Cover Web site", February, 2001.
- "Photos of NYC Manhole Covers, March, 2013.
- "NYC DEP Weekly Pipeline", August 3, 2010.
- "Long Island Star-Journal", August 1, 1945.
- "Manhole Covers", May 27, 2021.