List of New York City manhole cover abbreviations explained

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

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.