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W.B.'s Bus Almanac for May 13th

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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Re: W.B.'s Bus Almanac for May 13th

Posted by irtredbirdr33 on Wed May 13 09:30:47 2026, in response to W.B.'s Bus Almanac for May 13th, posted by W.B. on Wed May 13 08:11:36 2026.



The newspaper strike of 1963 led to the loss of four good newspapers, the Mirror, Journal-American, World-Telegram and the Herald Tribune.

The Journal American was the paper everyone read to find out who died. If someone in your family died it was posted in that paper.

Several years later when I was stationed in England I discovered the International Herald Tribune. The Herald had always published an edition in Paris. After the New York paper ceased the Washington Post and the New York Times took over the publication of the Internation edition. It was like meeting up with an old friend.

Larry, RedbirdR33

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Re: W.B.'s Bus Almanac for May 13th

Posted by W.B. on Wed May 13 17:14:58 2026, in response to Re: W.B.'s Bus Almanac for May 13th, posted by irtredbirdr33 on Wed May 13 09:30:47 2026.

Actually, one newspaper died after the 1962-63 strike - the Mirror. The Herald Tribune, World-Telegram & Sun and Journal-American all ceased in April 1966, as the respective owners (Whitney, Scripps-Howard and Hearst0 planned to pool their resources to publish the World Journal Tribune. A strike against those three led to the first edition of the "Widget" to come out in the fall, but that combo'd paper finally died in about May 1967. But yeah, the International Herald Tribune. Which, by the '80's, on their logohead, used the "Times Old English" font that The Times had used for its own logo since Feb. 21, 1967.

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Re: W.B.'s Bus Almanac for May 13th

Posted by randyo on Tue May 26 18:32:17 2026, in response to W.B.'s Bus Almanac for May 13th, posted by W.B. on Wed May 13 08:11:36 2026.

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