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Posted by W.B. on Tue Jul 1 08:19:06 2025 July 1, 1962 - The Book of Route Resumptions Manhattan, New York Manhattan and Bronx Surface Transit Operating Authority (FACO Division) After four months out of service since the March strike against Fifth Avenue Coach Lines Inc. and its Surface Transit Inc. subsidiary, the two remaining ex-FACCo routes, 2 - Fifth and Seventh Avenues and 6 - 72nd Street Crosstown, resume operations. They are the last of the eight remaining ex-FACCo routes to be placed back in service under MaBSTOA aegis (Routes 15 - Jackson Heights, 16 - Elmhurst Crosstown and 20 - 57th Street Crosstown resumed service on or about March 28, and 3 - Fifth, St. Nicholas and Convent Avenues, 4 - Fifth and Fort Washington Avenues and 5 - Fifth Avenue-Riverside Drive returned on or about March 29). (Source: "Last 2 Seized Bus Routes Go Into Service Tomorrow." The New York Times, June 30, 1962.) July 1, 1962 - The Book of Route Service Changes Manhattan, New York Manhattan and Bronx Surface Transit Operating Authority (NYCO Division) To ease the traffic bottleneck in and around the Grand Central area on East 42nd Street, the transition points for the 1 - Fourth and Madison Avenues line between Park and Madison Avenues are shifted to west on 37th Street on northbound runs, and east on 41st Street on southbound runs, on a 60-day trial basis. (By the time this route is extended north to 146th Street and Lenox Avenue via 135th Street, and south to South Ferry, on March 1, 1964, its transition points will have been fixed at 39th and 40th Streets, respectively, as will hold until the massive June 27, 2010 service cutbacks.) (Source: Daily News [New York], July 2, 1962.) July 1, 1968 - The Book of Route Extensions Queens, New York New York City Transit Authority Queens Bus Division Effective as of this date, the Q-44VP - Vleigh Place Shuttle is extended to Kissena Boulevard and Melbourne Avenue. (Source: Motor Coach Age, April-May 1977.) July 1, 1974 - The Book of Route Renumberings Manhattan, Queens and Bronx, New York Manhattan and Bronx Surface Transit Operating Authority - Manhattan and Bronx Divisions New York City Transit Authority - Manhattan Bus Division After decades of route duplications (and in some cases, triplications), new route numbers for up to 20 routes within Manhattan, Queens and The Bronx take effect on this date. They are as follows (with old route numbers in italics and new numbers in boldface): MANHATTAN (and some Queens): - M1 (NYCTA) Madison and Chambers Streets Crosstown - to M22 (the M1 designation was also used for MaBSTOA's Fifth and Madison Avenues line) - M2A (MaBSTOA) Fifth, Madison and Seventh Avenues (ex-FACCo) - to M2 (the (M)2A designation dated to 1966, when it was so renumbered to distinguish from the [ex-NYCO] 2 - Fifth, Madison and Lenox Avenues line; what ultimately happened to that route and what replaced it will be seen further in this entry) - M3 (NYCTA) 49th and 50th Streets Crosstown - to M27 (M3 was also the designation for MaBSTOA's Fifth, Madison and St. Nicholas/Convent Avenues line) - M6 (MaBSTOA) 72nd Street Crosstown - to M30 (M6 also applied to the Broadway, Seventh Avenue and Avenue of the Americas [Sixth Avenue] line, also run by MaBSTOA and originally by NYCO) - M7 (NYCTA) 65th Street Crosstown - to M29 (the M7 designation was also used for MaBSTOA's Broadway, Columbus and Lenox Avenues line; in addition, the Avenue B and East Broadway Transit Company ran their own M-7, an express line running from Wall Street to 110th Street, from 1972 until the company's demise in 1980) - M11 (NYCTA) York Avenue - to M31 (M11 was also applied to the MaBSTOA Ninth and Amsterdam Avenues line) - M15 (MaBSTOA) 23rd Street Crosstown (ex-NYCO) - to M26 (M15 was also the designation for NYCTA's First and Second Avenues line) - QM15 (MaBSTOA) Fifth and Madison Avenues-Queensboro Bridge-Jackson Heights (ex-FACCo) - to M32 (the QM15 designation was also used for Green Bus Lines' Lindenwood-Manhattan express bus route) - QM16 (MaBSTOA) Elmhurst Crosstown (ex-FACCo) - to Q89 (though the 16 number was duplicative in and of itself to MaBSTOA's [ex-NYCO] 34th Street Crosstown, as well as there being an NYCTA route Q16 - Clearview-Fort Totten, the QM16 designation unwittingly duplicated that of another Green Bus Lines express route which ran from Rockaway Park to midtown Manhattan) - M20 (MaBSTOA) 57th Street Crosstown (ex-FACCo) - to M28 (M20 was also the designation for MaBSTOA's [ex-NYCO] 116th Street Crosstown) - M101A (MaBSTOA) Third, Lexington and Lenox Avenues - to M102 (this route had run since March 2, 1969, with the route north of 116th Street and Lenox Avenue replacing the 2 - Fifth, Madison and Lenox Avenues line which had been discontinued that same day) - The TB route along the Triborough Bridge is split up into three different route numbers: * M34 - Manhattan (Lexington Avenue) - Wards and Randalls Islands * M35 - Manhattan (Lexington Avenue) - Astoria (Astoria Boulevard) * Bx21 - Bronx (Bruckner Boulevard) - Astoria (Astoria Boulevard) Only one duplicative route number was not changed on this date: the pull-in, pull-out only (and thus never seen on any bus route maps or route dispatcher's maps) M10 - Broadway route that ran between 168th Street and 135th Street "only"; it was started by Fifth Avenue Coach around 1921 (and in its early years had gone as far north as 193rd Street), and was of no relation to the ex-NYCO Eighth Avenue-Central Park West line of the same number. This M10 will last to 1976. THE BRONX: [All routes are MaBSTOA, and these were either created in the last years of Surface Transit aegis (i.e. Bx12A, Bx12B) or subsequent to the MaBSTOA takeover (Bx5A, Bx15B).] - Bx4A Webster Avenue - to Bx16 - Bx5A Story Avenue-Parkchester - to Bx54 - Bx12A Fordham Road-Pelham Parkway and Bx12B Orchard Beach - to Bx12 - Bx15A Gun Hill Road-Hillside Homes - to Bx6 - Bx15B Baychester Avenue - to Bx19 - Bx15C Allerton Avenue-Co-op City - to Bx17 (NOTE: Three of the Bx- numbers were recycled from prior routes: Bx6 had once been used for the old Throggs Neck line which was discontinued on February 15, 1970 and merged into the Bx40 - Tremont Avenue line; Bx19 was once applicable to the 207th Street Crosstown which had been eliminated on March 2, 1969 and combined with Bx12, Bx12A and Bx12B; and Bx21 had been the designation for the Pelham Bay Park route which also last ran on February 15, 1970, to be merged with and absorbed into Bx22 - Country Club-Spencer Estates. Also, the Bx17 renumbering was a reversion, as the Allerton Avenue line had been known by that designation prior to June 20, 1971 when it had been renumbered Bx15C; and likewise, the Bx16 had been known as Bx4A between January 6 and February 18, 1974, irrespective of this route cited in one of the sources below.) (Sources: "2 Boroughs' Buses Get New Numbers," The New York Times, June 20, 1974; Manhattan Bus Map, 1974 edition, New York City Transit Authority/Manhattan and Bronx Surface Transit Operating Authority; c.1972-73 and 4/74 side roll signs, and 1975 and 1976 front roll signs, for MaBSTOA routes.) |
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