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Posted by W.B. on Thu Feb 23 08:54:15 2017 This has to do with the Wikipedia entry for what they call the "Fifth and Sixth Avenues Line."In it, they go into the history of the NYCO #5 which went from 59th Street to South Ferry - and was discontinued in late 1963 when Sixth Avenue was made one-way northbound south of Herald Square (north of same was so converted in 1957), and the #6's northbound route shifted to Sixth. But they do NOT mention the history of FACCO's #5 from which today's M5 was descended; no mention of its history from 1900, its Fifth Avenue-Riverside Drive route - no mention of at what point its southernmost terminus was shifted out of Washington Square (post-ban on vehicle traffic through the park c.1964) and changed to Houston Street and West Broadway (more specifically, on that side of the intersection, La Guardia Place), no mention of when its northbound route south of 57th Street was moved to Sixth (was it then, or after Fifth Avenue's one-way southbound conversion in January 1966?), nor as to its northernmost expansion along Washington Heights to 178th Street upon or after the opening of the George Washington Bridge Bus Terminal. |
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