List of New York City manhole cover abbreviations

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