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Posted by
W.B.
on Thu Jun 26 16:51:18 2025
June 26, 1933 - The Book of First and Last Runs
Manhattan, New York
Second Avenue Railroad Corporation
East Side Omnibus Corporation
Buses replace streetcars on the First Avenue and Second Avenue lines. The trolleys had been run by the Second Avenue Railroad (in the case of the First Avenue line, only running between 59th and 125th Streets). Bus service will be operated by East Side Omnibus as Routes M-13 - First Avenue-Allen Street-South Ferry and M-15 - Second Avenue-Worth Street, respectively.
These routes are among five new bus lines inaugurated on this date by East Side Omnibus, the others being:
- M-11 - York Avenue-57th Street (today's M31)
- M-12 - York Avenue-86th Street (discontinued around 1939; it may have been folded into another branch of New York City Omnibus' Route 18 - 86th Street Crosstown soon afterwards)
- M-14 - First Avenue-Astor Place (terminated south at Astor Place and Broadway, although some sources listed this as a shuttle running between East 10th Street-First Avenue and Astor Place; likewise discontinued c. 1939)
(Sources: "Bus Lines Ready to Open," The New York Times, June 25, 1933; "Pageant Starts New Bus System," The New York Times, June 27, 1933; "New York's East Side Lines Start Service," Bus Transportation, [month and/or week unknown] 1933; "Route Map of New York City Omnibus Corporation," issued 1939.)
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