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W.B.'s Bus Almanac for November 10th |
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Posted by W.B. on Fri Nov 10 00:26:21 2023 November 10, 1963 - The Book of Last Runs and Route Service Changes Manhattan, New York Manhattan and Bronx Surface Transit Operating Authority (NYCO and FACO Divisions) Centre Street from Reade Street to Spring Street, Lafayette Street from Spring Street to 9th / 10th Streets, Fourth Avenue from Astor Place to 14th Street, and Avenue of the Americas (Sixth Avenue) from Franklin Street to 34th Street - Herald Square are all converted to one-way northbound, while Broadway between 34th and 23rd Streets, and between 14th and Canal Streets, becomes one-way southbound. Several MaBSTOA routes are affected by these changes, as follows: - 1 - Park Avenue South and Madison Avenue (via Park Avenue): South of 14th Street - Union Square, southbound buses rerouted south on Broadway all the way to its southern terminus at Park Row / City Hall. - 2 - Park Avenue South and Madison Avenue (via Madison Avenue): Below 14th Street, southbound buses rerouted south on Broadway up to East 4th Street, then east on 4th and north on the Bowery and Fourth Avenue to its 8th Street terminus. - 2 - Fifth and Seventh Avenues and 3 - Fifth, St. Nicholas and Convent Avenues: Southern terminus for both routes moved to 8th Street and Fourth Avenue. Northbound buses then run one block north on Fourth Avenue and west on 9th Street towards Fifth Avenue. - 5 - Fifth Avenue-Riverside Drive: Southern terminus on most runs extended to Houston Street and West Broadway (La Guardia Place). This necessitates a change in route path south of Fifth Avenue and 8th Street: east on 8th Street, south on Broadway, west on Houston Street to its aforementioned terminus; then on northbound trips, farther west on Houston, north on Sixth Avenue and east on 8th Street to Fifth Avenue (this will prefigure the shifting of the route's northbound path to the rest of Sixth up to 57th Street upon the one-way conversions of Fifth and Madison Avenues in 1966). Some other runs will terminate at 8th Street and Broadway. - 5 - Sixth Avenue: Entire route discontinued and absorbed into . . . - 6 - Broadway and Seventh Avenue, which now runs north along Trinity Place, Church Street and Sixth Avenue for the entire northbound trek from the Battery to its 59th Street / Central Park South terminus. Route description will be changed first to "Broadway and Avenue of the Americas," then to "Broadway, Seventh Avenue and Avenue of the Americas." - 7 - Broadway, Columbus and Lenox Avenues: From its southern terminus at 23rd Street and Broadway, northbound buses rerouted west on 23rd Street and then north on Sixth Avenue to the West 50's; also, either on this date or on March 1, 1964, its transition points in both directions are moved to 59th Street / Central Park South (from its prior such points at 53rd Street on northbound runs and 54th Street on southbound runs). (Sources: "City to Extend One-Way Traffic to 3 Manhattan Routes Sunday," The New York Times, November 5, 1963; " 'Village' to Get More Bus Runs," The New York Times, November 8, 1963; "Manhattan and Bronx Surface Transit Operating Authority: The First Ten Years" by Bernard Linder, Motor Coach Age, May 1972.) |
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