List of New York City manhole cover abbreviations

This list is incomplete; you can help by adding missing items. (August 2008)

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
Citizens Water Supply Co. of Newtown
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 System
RTS NYC = Rapid Transit System New York City
STEALTH COMM = Stealth Communications
WSNY = Water Supply of New York
Water Supply