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[edit] Avenue B and East Broadway Transit Company

This company operated the following routes:

  • M7 Wall Street Express to 110th Street via Madison Avenue (Park Row/Pearl Street, presumably the Avenue B Line to Union Square, then somehow to Madison) - this was essentially brought back as the x23, now the x90, in the mid-1970s
  • M8 Grand Street Crosstown
  • M9 Avenue B

--NE2 13:34, 20 January 2007 (UTC)

[edit] Changes in all routes between 1916 (streetcars) and later (buses)

This guide shows the routes in 1916.

New York Railways

[1] shows the routes ca. 1940.

  • M1: Madison Street Line
  • M3: N/A
  • M7: N/A
Eliminated
  • Bleecker Street Line, in 1917
  • Broadway and Amsterdam Avenue Line, probably in 1919 when the 8th and 9th were split
  • Canal Street Crosstown Line
  • Sixth and Amsterdam Avenues Line, probably in 1919 when the 8th and 9th were split
Second Avenue Railroad

The ca. 1940 map labels these in the "transfer system" box.

Third Avenue Railway
  • M8: Grand Street Ferry Line
  • M9: Avenue B Line
  • M100: Kingsbridge Line
  • M101: Third Avenue Line
  • M102: 125th Street Crosstown Line
  • M103: 59th Street Crosstown Line
  • M104: Broadway Branch Line
  • M105: Tenth Avenue Branch Line
  • M106: 42nd Street Crosstown Line
Eliminated
  • Broadway and 145th Street Line, eliminated 1947
  • East Belt Line
  • Grand Street Line, eliminated 1932 (over the Williamsburg Bridge; Grand Street Ferry Line remained)
  • Post Office and Brooklyn Line, eliminated 1932
  • West Belt Line
  • 28th and 29th Streets Crosstown Line
  • 110th Street Line

--NE2 13:01, 4 March 2007 (UTC)

[edit] M13 in Lower Manhattan?

According to [2]: "Back in the 60's, 126th Street had an M-13 that was a shuttle bus that operated during rush hours between the Journal American plant on South St. and the Chambers St. IRT/BMT station." --NE2 16:11, 4 March 2007 (UTC)

[edit] Bustitution dates

Dates may be off by a week or two.

--NE2 20:17, 7 March 2007 (UTC)

[edit] 1962 list

This is from [3] [4] [5] [6] [7] [8] [9]:

Franchises
  • M-2 Spring and Delancey Streets
  • M-4 Seventy-ninth Street
  • M-5 Eighty-sixth Street
  • M-6 Ninety-sixth Street
  • M-16 Eighth Street
  • M-17 Fourteenth Street
  • M-18 Twenty-third Street
  • M-19 Thirty-fourth Street
  • M-20 116th Street
  • M-21 Lexington and Lenox Avenues
  • M-22 Broadway and Columbus Avenue
  • M-23 Avenue of the Americas
  • M-25 Fourth and Madison Avenues
  • M-40 Houston Street-Avenue C
  • M-41 Eighth Avenue and Central Park West
  • M-42 Ninth and Amsterdam Avenue
  • M-45 Pitt and Ridge Streets
  • BxQ-19 Bronx-Queens via Triborough Bridge
  • MQ-25 Manhattan-Queens via Triborough Bridge
  • M-62 Manhattan-Wards Island via Triborough Bridge
  • M-26 West Thirty-third Street-Pennsylvania Station
  • M-27 Broadway
  • M-28 St. Nicholas Avenue
  • M-29 Edgecombe Avenue
  • M-30 East Ninth and Tenth Streets
  • M-31 Jackson Heights, Queens
  • M-32 Morningside and Convent Avenues
  • M-33 Riverside Drive
  • M-34 Fort Washington Avenue
  • M-35 West Fifty-seventh Street and Eighth Avenue
  • M-36 East side of Mount Morris Park
  • M-37 Thompson and Bleecker Streets
  • M-38 East Fifty-seventh Street
  • M-39 East Seventy-second Street
  • M-43 West Fifty-seventh Street and Twelfth Avenue
  • M-44 Lewisohn Stadium
  • M-46 West 122d Street loop
  • M-47 Seventh Avenue Extension
Transit Authority
  • M-1 Madison and Chambers Sts Crosstown
  • M-3 Forty-ninth and Fiftieth Sts Crosstown
  • M-7 Sixty-fifth St Crosstown
  • M-11 York Avenue (Fifty-seventh St to Ninety-second St)
  • M-15 First and Second Aves (from Chatham Square and South Ferry to East 124th St)
Avenue B and East Broadway Transit Co
  • M-8 Grand St Crosstown (from Franklin D Roosevelt Drive to Ave of the Americas)
  • M-9 Ave B (from East Broadway and Chatham Square to Union Square)
Fifth Avenue Coach Division
  • 1 Fifth Ave
  • 2 Fifth and Seventh Aves
  • 3 Fifth, St. Nicholas and Convent Aves
  • 4 Fifth and Fort Washington Aves
  • 5 Fifth Ave, Riverside Drive and Broadway
  • 6 Seventy-second St Crosstown
  • 15 Fifth Ave-Queensboro Bridge-Jackson Heights
  • 16 Elmhurst Crosstown (Queens)
  • 19 Fifth Ave-Riverside Drive
  • 20 Fifty-seventh St Crosstown
Omnibus Division of Fifth Avenue Coach Lines (21 routes)
  • 1 Fourth and Madison Aves (via Park Ave)
  • 2 Fourth and Madison Aves (via Madison Ave)
  • 3 Lexington Ave
  • 4 Lexington and Lenox Aves
  • 5 Ave of the Americas (Sixth Ave)
  • 6 Broadway and Seventh Ave
  • 7 Broadway, Columbus and Lenox Aves
  • 10 Eighth Ave and Central Park West
  • 11 Ninth and Amsterdam Aves
  • 12 Spring and Delancey Sts Crosstown
  • 13 Eighth St Crosstown
  • 14 Fourteenth St Crosstown
  • 15 Twenty-third St Crosstown
  • 16 Thirty-fourth St Crosstown
  • 17 Seventy-ninth St Crosstown
  • 18 Eighty-sixth St Crosstown
  • 19 Ninety-sixth St Crosstown
  • 20 116th St Crosstown
  • 21 Houston St and Avenue C Crosstown
  • 22 Pitt and Ridge Sts
  • TB Triborough Bridge
Surface Transit Lines
  • M-100 Broadway-Kingsbridge
  • M-101 Third Ave-Amsterdam Ave
  • M-101 Third Ave (Ninety-Sixth St to Sixth St)
  • M-103 Fifty-Ninth St Croastown
  • M-104 Broadway
  • M-105 Tenth Avenue
  • M-106 Forty-second St Crosstown

[edit] History of franchises

June 28, 1914 [10]

"is operating a line up Fifth Avenue from Washington Square to 135th Street;
"on Seventh Avenue from 110th Street to 135th, with occasional buses going as far north as 145th Street,
"another across Fifty-Seventh Street from Fifth Avenue to Broadway and thence to Riverside Drive and 125th Street by Broadway and Seventy-second Street,

"and a spur line from Fifth Avenue to The Pennsylvania Station."


July 13, 1917 [11] - Fifth Avenue Coach had been operating temporarily from 135th Street [and Broadway?] to Broadway and 169th Street; [12] October 13, 1918 - Washington Heights wanted operations to continue


Fifth Avenue Coach began operating across the Queensboro Bridge on July 9, 1925 under a permit issued July 1, 1925. [13]


November 1930 [14]:

Fifth Avenue Coach Company
  • 57th Street crosstown
  • York Avenue from 72nd to 92nd

Another company?


March 25, 1932 [15]:

Requested by New York City Omnibus Corporation (actually went to Avenue B and East Broadway Transit Company)
  • 17 Avenue B, Broadway via Park Row, East Broadway, Clinton, Avenue B, 14th to 1st
  • 18 Grand Street, East Street via Grand, 6th, Canal, Vestry, Greenwich, Desbrosses to West Street and the Hudson River


These seven crosstown routes were operated by the city until 1932?:[16][17]

  • 96th Street
  • 86th Street
  • 79th Street
  • 49th Street
  • Delancey Street
  • Chambers Street
  • Avenue C


December 16, 1932 (one-year) [18]:

Green Lines, 6 crosstown in Manhattan
  • M-1 Madison and Chambers Streets
  • M-2 Spring and Delancey Streets
  • M-3 49th and 50th Streets
  • M-4 79th Street
  • M-5 86th Street
  • M-6 96th Street
Hamilton Bus Corporation
  • Avenue C?
Fifth Avenue Coach Company
  • 20 existing routes, including Convent Avenue, St. Nicholas Avenue, Riverside Drive, Broadway, Fifty-seventh Street, Edgecombe Avenue, Eighth Avenue, Mount Morris Park


January 13, 1933 (one-year) [19]:

Avenue B and East Broadway Transit Company
  • Grand Street
  • Avenue B and East Broadway
Triboro Coach Company (Queens)
  • Astoria-Woodside (Q18)
  • Astoria-Corona (Q19)
  • Maspeth-Woodside (Q24?)
Green Bus Lines (Queens)
  • 101st Street and Jerome Avenue (Q8)
North Shore Bus Company (Queens)
  • Flushing-Little Neck (Q12)
  • Flushing-Bayside (Q13)
  • Flushing-Whitestone (Q14)
  • Beechhurst (Q15)
  • Bayside Avenue (Q16)
  • Corona-Ditmars Avenue (?) then operated without franchise
  • Flushing-Bayside West (?) then operated without franchise

Numbers are not in the article.


February 6, 1933 (began operation then; not clear if they were franchised - but "bus operation on three additional franchise routes authorized by The Board of Estimate and The Transit Commission" - December 1932?) [20]:

Note: "The Fifth Avenue Coach Company, whose original franchise from The State Legislature applies only to operation on Fifth Avenue"
Fifth Avenue Coach Company
  • Edgecombe and 155th to Columbus Circle via Edgecombe, St. Nicholas, Manhattan, 110th, Riverside, [unknown crosstown street], Broadway
  • 157th and Broadway to 110th and 5th via Broadway, 155th, St. Nicholas, Manhattan, 110th
  • 157th and Broadway to Washington Square via 157th Street, Riverside, 72nd, Broadway, 57th, 5th

The third is 19; the first two were presumably 17 and 18. Franchise numbers may have been M-29, M-28, and M-27.

The company also realigned the St. Nicholas Avenue Line (25th and 5th to 181st and St. Nicholas) to use Convent and Morningside between 113th and 152nd. This was franchise M-32.


February 28, 1933 (25-year) [21]:

East Side Omnibus Corporation
  • Five routes, presumably M-11 to M-15


March 1933 [22]:

Green Bus Lines, 6 crosstown routes in Manhattan and 3 routes in Queens
  • Madison-Chambers Streets
  • Spring-Delancey Streets
  • Forty-ninth and Fiftieth Streets
  • Seventy-ninth Street
  • Eighty-sixth Street? not included in the list but might have been left out accidentally
  • Ninety-sixth Street
Hamilton Bus Corporation
  • Avenue C-Desbrosses Street Ferry

This is not the full list.


December 22, 1933 (25-year) [23] [24]:

Fifth Avenue Coach Company
  • Jackson Heights (M31? already existed?) [25]

Others?

New York City Omnibus Corporation [26]
  • Spring and Delancey Streets (M2)
  • 79th Street (M4)
  • 86th Street (M5)
  • 96th Street (M6)
  • Eighth Street (M16)
  • 14th Street (M17)
  • 23rd Street (M18)
  • 34th Street (M19)
  • 116th Street (M20)
  • Broadway (M22)
  • Seventh Avenue (M24?)
  • Lexington Avenue (M21)
  • Lenox Avenue (M21)
  • Columbus Avenue (M22)
  • Sixth Avenue (M23)
Madison Avenue Coach Company
  • Fourth Avenue (M25)
  • Madison Avenue (M25)
Comprehensive Omnibus Corporation

The East Side Omnibus Corporation was also assigned 25-year franchises by Tammany around the same time. [27]

Numbers are not from the articles.


February 11, 1935 [28] [29]:

Comprehensive Omnibus Corporation
  • 65th Street (new)
  • Madison-Chambers (existing, by Green)
  • 49th-50th Streets (existing, by Green)


October 4, 1935 (10-year) [30]:

Eighth Avenue Coach Corporation
  • Eighth Avenue, Greenwich Street and West Broadway to Polo Grounds
  • Ninth Avenue, 14th Street to 125th Street and LaSalle Place


Numbers were assigned to franchises in December 1932; also see [31], which calls the three proposed ones "Route 11", "Route 12", and "Route 13". (Those ended up as M-11 to M-15.) I have no idea how 65th Street managed to be M-7. But the others fit relatively nicely: --NE2 19:43, 30 March 2007 (UTC)

  • M-1 to M-6, December 1932
  • probably M-26 to at least M-32, December 1932 (Fifth Avenue; looks like M-35 was a bit later [32]) - why is this so early? They must not have been numbered until later.
  • M-10?, December 1932 - doesn't seem to be numbered in that article, so it may have been assigned a bit later, but it was numbered by January 1933
  • M-8 and M-9, January 1933
  • M-11 to M-15, February 1933
  • M-16 to M-25, December 1933
  • M-40, not sure, since this was M-10? acquired by Triangle in 1935 - that's probably when the franchise was numbered
  • M-7 (bad!), February 1935
  • M-41 and M-42, October 1935
  • M-43, 1937? [33]

[edit] Lenox Terminal Shuttle

Should we add the late night 3 shuttle bus? It's on the bus map, but not too sure about scheduling or depot assignments. Pacific Coast Highway {talk • contribs} 00:30, 3 April 2007 (UTC)

That's probably a good idea. Essentially it would be listed as 135th Street to 148th Street–Lenox Terminal, late nights only. --NE2 01:42, 3 April 2007 (UTC)

[edit] Simplified timeline of changes

[edit] My removals

I removed the list of the routes. There is no need for them. If one wanted a list of every single route in Manhattan, then they should go to the website. Not here. Because of this, this page is no longer a list, and I have moved it to Bus routes in Manhattan. I'm fairly certain I shall be reverted, but I had to try. i said 05:50, 17 August 2007 (UTC)

If not for the "history" column, I might agree with you. The history of each bus line is definitely encyclopedic, and at that point, the other columns serve to distinguish one line from another, via a general description of their routes. It's actually a pretty good list, going very far beyond a mere directory. And can one really say that an article titled "Bus routes in Manhattan" is complete without at least a limited list of those routes? Just because someone compared this list to the far-poorer List of Egged bus lines does not make it unencylopedic by association.--Father Goose 20:22, 19 August 2007 (UTC)
Was this an attempt to get the Egged list deleted? I have reverted. --NE2 10:03, 20 August 2007 (UTC)
I came upon this as a result of that discussion, but it has nothing to do with it. And the history column is a mild bit of information but I don't particularly see it as enyclopedic or worthwhile. Yes one can say an encyclopedia article on Bus routes in Manhattan is complete without a list of every single route, where they run and some irrelevent history about them. i said 08:50, 21 August 2007 (UTC)
How exactly is the history of several bus lines irrelevant to an encyclopedia article about said bus lines?-Father Goose 15:42, 21 August 2007 (UTC)
The history of each individual line is irrelevant because on the whole, the history is not of interest. If it was, then it would be included; but it would be its own article if this were true. i said 22:02, 21 August 2007 (UTC)
I don't understand exactly what you're saying, but the gist seems to be that you don't care about the history of the routes so they're not important. --NE2 02:00, 22 August 2007 (UTC)