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W.B.'s Bus Almanac for May 13th |
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Posted by W.B. on Wed May 13 08:11:36 2026 May 13, 1966 - The Book of Last Runs Manhattan, New York New York City Transit Authority Manhattan Bus Division Service is discontinued on the M-13 - Journal Building shuttle bus, this on the heels of the New York Journal-American (which was located on South Street) ceasing publication on April 24. This route (officially, according to TA proceeding transcripts from 1967, a branch of the M-15 - First and Second Avenues line, and indeed the route number was recycled from the old First Avenue-Allen Street-South Ferry line which had been combined with what was designated initially as M-15 - Second Avenue-Worth Street after the 1951 conversion of First and Second Avenues to one-way traffic) had started in September 1954 as a shuttle bus to transport employees of the paper to and from its headquarters. It had run from William Street via New Chambers Street, Pike Street, Pike Slip, and South Street to the Journal building at Market Slip and Catherine Street, while returning buses ran via South Street, James Slip and New Chambers Street to William Street; some modifications to its basic route would be made over the years. (It would not be around for the short life of the World Journal Tribune, which published from September 12, 1966 until May 5, 1967.) The route would be in operation again as M-15S - South Street Shuttle, from February 15, 1970 until April 1, 1971 when several lower Manhattan streets, including New Chambers Street, are demapped to prepare for the building of the One Police Plaza complex; by then, the building on South Street would be home to the New York Post. |
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