The North Shore Bus Company operated public buses in Queens , New York City. It was established in 1920 as the successor to the New York and North Shore Traction Company trolley system, and operated until 1947 when it went bankrupt, and its operations were taken over by the New York City Board of Transportation .
101-672: The company was established in 1902 as a trolley company called the Mineola, Roslyn & Port Washington Traction Company , but as it grew into Queens it was renamed in 1907 as the " New York and North Shore Traction Company ." It had a line from Flushing, Queens to Roslyn in Nassau County named the North Shore Line, as well as another from Flushing to Whitestone–14th Avenue Station on the Whitestone Branch of
202-698: A bus built in 1949 similar to that used on the show, part of the New York Transit Museum fleet. The depot facilitated the first testing of compressed natural gas (CNG) buses in 1992, when a dual-fueled CNG/Diesel bus was housed in the facility. The bus was fueled at the Brooklyn Union Gas Company facility in Greenpoint, Brooklyn . In November 1995, the NYCTA installed a fueling station (leased from Brooklyn Union) at
303-534: A new command center across from the depot, to the east of the current complex. The contract for the project was awarded on June 26, 2015. The Flatbush Depot is located at 4901 Fillmore Avenue in Flatlands, Brooklyn ( 40°36′57″N 73°55′37″W / 40.615736°N 73.927059°W / 40.615736; -73.927059 ( Flatbush Depot ) ), near the Kings Plaza shopping center, where
404-560: A number of bus routes terminate. The depot occupies two blocks just off Flatbush Avenue , bounded by Fillmore Avenue, East 49th Street, Avenue N, and Utica Avenue . The Brooklyn Heights Railroad (part of the Brooklyn Rapid Transit Company ) opened the depot in mid-1902 along its Flatbush Avenue Line (later the Bergen Beach Shuttle) on Avenue N. It eventually served a number of lines from
505-696: A number of routes from the depots, mainly those serving the Queens Village and adjacent areas. However, despite this move, the Jamaica Depot was still overcrowded, since the capacity for that depot is 150 buses and is assigned 200 buses. As a result, the 50 additional buses at that depot park on surrounding streets. A project to rebuild the depot would begin in 2018, with all of its routes and buses temporarily sent to other depots. Queens Village Depot MTA Regional Bus Operations operates local and express buses serving New York City in
606-420: A paint shop, which is decommissioned and has been used to store buses at times. The north end of the depot (1720 Bushwick Avenue) is used to maintain the museum bus fleet along with Amsterdam Depot , and contains a repair shop for MTA Bus. Also, work is underway to modify this depot to accommodate articulated-buses for use in the very near future. The original building on the site was a trolley car barn for
707-435: A passenger terminal named Union Station. Steam trains ran from some of the outlying parts of Downtown Brooklyn where they then continued their journey into Manhattan. Following that, it operated as an elevated car inspection shop from sometime in the early 1900s until approximately 1940, when it was acquired by the city's Board of Transportation. In 1944, it began operation as a bus garage called Fifth Avenue Depot. In 1959,
808-449: A shop for bus maintenance and repairs, and an outdoor parking lot used for storing 80 express buses. The buses from the depot provide express service between Yonkers or Western Bronx and Manhattan. The city of Yonkers plans to acquire at least a portion of the site from the MTA, as part of the redevelopment of the waterfront area, a former industrial section. These routes operate out of
909-612: A washing area. It is now the Jamaica Depot under the MTA. For many years after the takeover, both of the depots were overcrowded with buses due to lack of storage space. In 1968, the MTA, which now ran the NYCTA, acquired land to build another depot, the Queens Village Depot , to relieve crowding at the other two depots. This depot, located at 97-11 222nd Street between 97th and 99th Avenues in Queens Village, Queens , west of Belmont Park , opened in 1974, which took
1010-849: Is adjacent to the Grand Avenue Depot in Maspeth, Queens , and the Zerega Avenue Central Maintenance Facility is located at 750 Zerega Avenue in the Bronx . Both maintenance facilities are responsible for the major reconstruction of buses in need of repair including engine rebuilding, transmission shops, and shops for body components on New York City Transit Authority's bus fleet, as well as repainting of buses. The facilities also include several employee workshops for surface transportation training and institutional instruction. In addition, Zerega Avenue CMF
1111-601: Is also used for midday layovers for express buses from other boroughs, with additional layover areas nearby in Midtown. The depot was proposed to be relocated to a site on the west side between West 30th and 31st Streets, as part of a planned expansion of the Javits Center, which was slated to be completed by 2010 but never fully commenced. The site of the Mother Clara Hale Depot , formerly named
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#17327728145281212-473: Is considered a third central maintenance facility. The Zerega Avenue Maintenance and Training Facility is a one-story structure located on the east side of Zerega Avenue between Lafayette and Seward Avenues in the Castle Hill section of the Bronx ( 40°49′22″N 73°50′30″W / 40.822916°N 73.841587°W / 40.822916; -73.841587 ( Zerega Depot ) ), sitting along
1313-534: Is currently assigned around 200 buses, but has been assigned as many as 262 in the past. The depot and subway yard are located in an area once known as Fresh Pond , named for two freshwater ponds located just north of Metropolitan Avenue . The Grand Avenue Depot is located between 47th Street and 49th Place on the north side of Grand Avenue in Maspeth, Queens ( 40°43′03″N 73°55′11″W / 40.717615°N 73.919722°W / 40.717615; -73.919722 ( Grand Avenue Depot ) ), on
1414-662: Is located along East 177th Street and next to the north end of the Sheridan Expressway at its interchange with the Cross Bronx Expressway ( 40°50′15″N 73°52′40″W / 40.837525°N 73.877744°W / 40.837525; -73.877744 ( West Farms Depot ) ), in the West Farms section of the Bronx . The site is bounded by 177th Street at its north end, Devoe Avenue to
1515-619: Is located at 1910 Bartow Avenue near Gun Hill Road ( 40°51′59″N 73°49′59″W / 40.866414°N 73.833071°W / 40.866414; -73.833071 ( Gun Hill Depot ) ), west of the New England Thruway ( Interstate 95 ) in the Baychester neighborhood of the Bronx near Co-op City , which a number of its routes serve. The site was formerly a garbage and toxic waste dump , used at various times for both legal and illegal waste disposal. It
1616-567: Is named for Harlem humanitarian Clara Hale . The site of the depot was initially home to the Lenox Avenue Car House , a two-story car barn and power station , built by the Metropolitan Street Railway for their Lenox Avenue Line , the first line in the city to use conduit electrification . The line and depot began service on July 9, 1895. The New York City Omnibus Corporation , which had replaced
1717-564: Is responsible for registry of new buses in the fleet. The two facilities were conceived as part of the 1995-1999 and 2000-2004 MTA Capital Programs. The Zerega Avenue facility was opened in 2001, while the Grand Avenue facility was opened in 2007 along with the bus depot. Previously, the large repair shops of the East New York Depot served as the system's sole central maintenance shops; as of May 2016, East New York
1818-566: Is the only NYCTA depot in Brooklyn to maintain express buses, storing a total of 285 buses. Ulmer Park is notable for rebuilding, repairing, and housing NYCT Bus 2185, a MCI express coach which was badly damaged during the September 11 attacks in 2001. This depot has also been modified to accommodate articulated buses, with the B1 converted as of June 2020. The name Ulmer Park is a reference to
1919-498: The 126th Street Depot , which lies above a historical 17th century African-American burial ground; it opened as a directly run NYCT depot in the Manhattan Division like the 126th Street Depot on January 4, 2015, though many routes are operated from other depots. The Tuskegee Airmen Depot is located at 1552 Lexington Avenue, filling the block bounded by Park Avenue , Lexington Avenue , and 99th and 100th Streets in
2020-586: The 146th Street Depot until 1993, is located at 721 Lenox Avenue, filling the block bounded by Lenox Avenue , Seventh Avenue , and 146th and 147th Streets in Harlem, Manhattan ( 40°49′19″N 73°56′20″W / 40.821949°N 73.93897°W / 40.821949; -73.93897 ( Mother Clara Hale Depot ) ), two blocks south of the Harlem–148th Street subway station. The three-floor structure has capacity for 150 buses. The depot
2121-663: The Brooklyn Union Gas Company with engines that operated on compressed natural gas (CNG). A compressor station was installed at the Wortman Avenue depot. By the mid-1990s, many of the buses operated by Command ran on CNG. Local buses out of this depot continue to operate on compressed natural gas under the MTA. The Ulmer Park Depot is located at 2449 Harway Avenue in the neighborhood of Bath Beach, Brooklyn ( 40°35′38″N 73°59′31″W / 40.593874°N 73.992079°W / 40.593874; -73.992079 ( Ulmer Park Depot ) ). The depot fills
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#17327728145282222-717: The City College of New York . It was built in 1882 as a trolley depot for the Third Avenue Railway . The last trolley was operated from the building on May 17, 1947. The building was then expanded and reopened as a bus garage by Surface Transit Inc. , a subsidiary of the Fifth Avenue Coach Company . The MaBSTOA assumed the depot's operations in 1962. The MTA shut down the Amsterdam Depot's bus operations on September 7, 2003,
2323-606: The East Harlem neighborhood of Manhattan ( 40°47′18″N 73°57′02″W / 40.78842°N 73.950605°W / 40.78842; -73.950605 ( Tuskegee Airmen Depot ) ), north of the 96th Street subway station, and near the 97th Street portal of the Park Avenue Tunnel . The depot had been a car barn for streetcars on the Lexington Avenue Line, built in 1895. The depot
2424-625: The Fifth Avenue Depot until June 30, 1988, is located on the east side of Fifth Avenue between 36th and 39th Streets in Sunset Park, Brooklyn ( 40°39′07″N 74°00′07″W / 40.651932°N 74.001923°W / 40.651932; -74.001923 ( Jackie Gleason Depot ) ), just west of the 36th-38th Street Yard and Ninth Avenue station of the New York City Subway . The depot had been
2525-593: The Flatbush area, including the Bergen Beach Shuttle, Flatbush Avenue Line, Nostrand Avenue Line , Ocean Avenue Line, and Utica Avenue Line . The barn began serving buses in 1931, and was acquired by the city in 1940. The depot was reconstructed under municipal operations in the late 1940s, designed by architect D. R. Collin of the BRT, and was intended to be the first of a new system-wide design. Few of
2626-677: The Gateway Center . The depot was built by and owned by the New York City Department of Transportation in 1996, and leased to the Command Bus Company . It was sold to MTA Bus in early 2009. Command's previous depot was several blocks to the northwest on Montauk Avenue and Wortman Avenue (612/626 Wortman Avenue), which now houses the school bus operations of the successor company Varsity Bus Company . In 1988, two Orion I Command buses were fitted by
2727-690: The Jacob K. Javits Convention Center , Hudson Yards , and the Port Authority Bus Terminal . The depot was originally the New York headquarters and bus garage for Greyhound Lines . Ground broke on the facility on April 26, 1966. It was designed by De Leuw, Cather, and Associates and built by Turner Construction . It was sold to the New York City Transit Authority in 1996. The Transit Authority renovated
2828-820: The Long Island Rail Road , better known as the Whitestone Line. Within Nassau County , it had lines from Port Washington to Mineola which was known as the Port Washington Line, and from Mineola to Hicksville , called the Hicksville Line. The trolley cars on this system were considered to be the largest and most powerful on Long Island and in Queens. As powerful as they were, however, they still had difficulty climbing
2929-536: The New England Thruway ( Interstate 95 ) in the Eastchester and Co-op City neighborhoods of the Bronx. It was built in 1970, and is owned by Edward Arrigoni, former president of New York Bus Service (NYBS), and has been leased to the City of New York and MTA Bus Company for twenty years with an option to purchase afterwards. It was renamed Eastchester Depot upon takeover on July 1, 2005. It previously housed
3030-674: The New York City Board of Transportation , which was superseded by the New York City Transit Authority in 1953. Prior to takeover by the city in 1947, the company based its operations out of two depots: The Flushing Depot of the company was located on the south side of Roosevelt Avenue in Flushing Meadows–Corona Park in Queens, west of 126th Street and east of the New York City Subway 's Corona Yard . This depot opened sometime in
3131-515: The New York City Subway 's East New York Yard . The five-story structure is steel-framed with a brick exterior, with two stories for bus storage and repair shops. The facility was built to perform heavy maintenance, and served as New York City Bus' central maintenance facility until the opening of the Zerega and Grand Avenue facilities . Buses enter and exit the complex via numerous doors on Jamaica Avenue, with an additional vehicle entrance at
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3232-518: The New York City Transit Authority (successor to the BOT) and its subsidiary Manhattan and Bronx Surface Transit Operating Authority (MaBSTOA) took over the operations of the Fifth Avenue Coach Company in Manhattan and the Bronx. The Transit Authority inherited at least 12 bus depots from the company, some of which were kept in operation while others were condemned and closed. From 2005 to 2006,
3333-654: The Triboro Coach Corporation , one of the last surviving private bus lines in New York City. In spite of this, the company was still occasionally able to purchase routes from Bee Line, Incorporated in Nassau County. North Shore acquired the Flushing Heights Bus Corporation and its Q17 and Q25 routes on September 22, 1935, although that company was never merged into NSB. On November 9, 1936, North Shore acquired
3434-836: The United States out of 29 bus depots . These depots are located in all five boroughs of the city, plus one located in nearby Yonkers in Westchester County . 21 of these depots serve MTA New York City Transit (NYCT)'s bus operations, while the remaining eight serve the MTA Bus Company (the successor to private bus operations taken over around 2006.) These facilities perform regular maintenance, cleaning, and painting of buses, as well as collection of revenue from bus fareboxes . Several of these depots were once car barns for streetcars , while others were built much later and have only served buses. Employees of
3535-402: The " New York and North Shore Traction Company ." It had a line from Flushing, Queens to Roslyn in Nassau County named the North Shore Line, as well as another from Flushing to Whitestone–14th Avenue Station on the Whitestone Branch of the Long Island Rail Road , better known as the Whitestone Line. Within Nassau County , it had lines from Port Washington to Mineola which was known as
3636-545: The 1900s, and housed buses serving northern Queens. It is now the Casey Stengel Depot under the MTA. The company's Jamaica Depot was located on the west side of Merrick Boulevard just south of Liberty Avenue in Jamaica, Queens . The depot lies between Merrick Boulevard to the east and 165th Street to the west, and spans about three blocks north-to-south between South Road and 107th Avenue, located across from
3737-459: The 1940s, North Shore operated nearly all the bus routes in Zone B (Flushing and Northern Queens) and Zone D. On March 30, 1947 the company went bankrupt after its drivers and other employees went on strike. Its operations were taken over by the New York City Board of Transportation , which was superseded by the New York City Transit Authority in 1953. Prior to takeover by the city in 1947,
3838-632: The B35 converted as of September 1, 2018. The Spring Creek Depot is located on Flatlands Avenue east of Crescent Street in the Spring Creek subsection of Brooklyn's East New York neighborhood ( 40°39′42″N 73°51′55″W / 40.661628°N 73.865156°W / 40.661628; -73.865156 ( Spring Creek Depot ) ), adjacent to the Brooklyn General Mail Facility , and several blocks northeast of
3939-547: The Broadway Railroad's Broadway streetcar line , opened in 1859. The barn began serving buses in 1931, and was acquired by the city during unification in 1940. Construction on the current bus depot began in 1947. The depot was built on top of the subway tunnel roof of the IND Fulton Street Line , which had been built in the early 1940s. The depot opened on December 17, 1950. The trolley barn
4040-1007: The December 1, 2008 murder of Edwin Thomas, a bus driver who was operating a bus on the B46 Limited route when this incident occurred. This depot has also been modified to accommodate articulated buses, with the B44 Limited (now SBS) converted as of January 2013 and the B46 SBS in January 2020. The Fresh Pond Depot is located at 66-99 Fresh Pond Road, on the east side of Fresh Pond Road south of Madison Street in Ridgewood, Queens ( 40°42′23″N 73°53′46″W / 40.706400°N 73.896111°W / 40.706400; -73.896111 ( Fresh Pond Depot ) ), adjacent to
4141-564: The Flushing Heights Bus Corporation and its Q17 and Q25 routes on September 22, 1935, although that company was never merged into NSB. On November 9, 1936, North Shore acquired the franchise to all bus routes in Zone B (Flushing and Northern Queens), except those operated by the New York and Queens Transit Corporation . The Q26 and Q27 were transferred to the North Shore Bus Company from Z & M Coach Company , while
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4242-484: The Grand Avenue Depot took on many routes and buses from the nearby Fresh Pond Depot, relieving overcrowding at that facility. The building design is certified Environmental Management Systems ISO 14001 specifications. The four-story building includes four fueling and defueling stations, cleaning and storage facilities for 200 buses on the first floor, an advanced 27 bus central maintenance facility on
4343-548: The M98 route went to Michael J. Quill Depot. This garage now houses and maintains most of the museum and vintage bus fleet. The Manhattanville Depot , formerly the 132nd Street Depot , is a three-story structure located in the block bounded by Broadway , Riverside Drive , and 132nd and 133rd Streets in Manhattanville, Manhattan ( 40°49′09″N 73°57′25″W / 40.819197°N 73.957060°W / 40.819197; -73.957060 ( Manhattanville Depot ) ). The depot holds 192 buses, with storage space on
4444-423: The MTA Bus Company is represented by ATU 1181. The East New York Depot , also called the East New York Base Shops , is located at One Jamaica Avenue /25 Jamaica Avenue at Bushwick Avenue in the Broadway Junction area of East New York, Brooklyn ( 40°40′41″N 73°53′59″W / 40.678063°N 73.899747°W / 40.678063; -73.899747 ( East New York Depot ) ), just east of
4545-525: The Manhattan Division may be swapped between depots on an as-needed basis, and are not reflected in the route assignments as these are short-term loans to cover services at these depots. Amsterdam Depot is located on the entire city block bounded by Amsterdam Avenue , Convent Avenue, and 128th and 129th Streets in Manhattanville, Manhattan ( 40°48′51″N 73°57′19″W / 40.814246°N 73.955365°W / 40.814246; -73.955365 ( Amsterdam Depot ) ), several blocks south of
4646-481: The NY&NST replaced their trolley cars with buses, the majority of which operated in Queens. The economic impact of the Great Depression forced them to sell off many of their routes to other companies during the 1930s, most notably to the Triboro Coach Corporation , one of the last surviving private bus lines in New York City. In spite of this, the company was still occasionally able to purchase routes from Bee Line, Incorporated in Nassau County. North Shore acquired
4747-415: The NYCTA, acquired land to build another depot, the Queens Village Depot , to relieve crowding at the other two depots. This depot, located at 97-11 222nd Street between 97th and 99th Avenues in Queens Village, Queens , west of Belmont Park , opened in 1974, which took a number of routes from the depots, mainly those serving the Queens Village and adjacent areas. However, despite this move, the Jamaica Depot
4848-456: The Port Washington Line, and from Mineola to Hicksville , called the Hicksville Line. The trolley cars on this system were considered to be the largest and most powerful on Long Island and in Queens. As powerful as they were, however, they still had difficulty climbing the hills of such areas as Douglaston and Manhasset . By the late-1910s many trolley systems began to decline, but rather than collapse or sell themselves to other companies,
4949-417: The Q1 and Q32 were transferred to Z & M. In addition, North Shore restored service to the Bayside West–Jamaica route, which had been discontinued a year earlier by S & C Buses. On June 25, 1939, North Shore acquired the remaining Bee Line routes and Bee Line's 165th Street Bus Terminal in Jamaica, as part of the company's takeover of nearly all routes in Zone D (Jamaica and Southeast Queens). By
5050-456: The Ulmer Park resort, operated by William Ulmer of the William Ulmer Brewery in Bath Beach from 1893 to 1899. These routes operate out of all NYCT depots, but can also pull from the Bus Company depot if needed. The Manhattan and Bronx Surface Transit Operating Authority (MaBSTOA), a subsidiary of the New York City Transit brand, operates all of the local buses in Manhattan. All Manhattan bus depots are represented by TWU Local 100. Buses in
5151-464: The barn on the east side of Ninth Avenue was the Kingsbridge Power House , which was constructed around the same time and supplied electricity to the Third Avenue system. It was designed and built by Westinghouse Electric Corporation and by Hopper, with similar brick and terracotta features. The facility became the location of the company's central repair shop in 1947 when the 65th Street Shops closed. In 1948, Third Avenue's central repair shop
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#17327728145285252-406: The block bounded by 25th Avenue, Bay 38th Street (which is closed to the public), Harway Avenue, and Bath Avenue. Land for the depot was acquired in 1947, and the facility was constructed in the late 1940s, opening for operation on January 15, 1950. It is a single story 118,800-square-foot (11,040 m ) steel-framed building with a brick exterior. It was rehabilitated in 1983 and 1989. This
5353-538: The borough are operated by the MTA Bus Company. All depots in the division, including those under the MTA Bus Company, are represented by TWU Local 100. Although named the Bronx Division, only three are actually located in The Bronx , with the others in Inwood, Manhattan and the suburb of Yonkers . The Eastchester Depot is located on Tillotson Avenue near Conner Street ( 40°53′03″N 73°49′18″W / 40.884228°N 73.821717°W / 40.884228; -73.821717 ( Eastchester Depot ) ) off
5454-413: The campus of York College . This depot, which housed buses serving the Jamaica and Southeastern Queens area, opened in 1939, and expanded in subsequent years following takeover, adding bus storage areas and a washing area. It is now the Jamaica Depot under the MTA. For many years after the takeover, both of the depots were overcrowded with buses due to lack of storage space. In 1968, the MTA, which now ran
5555-452: The city control of the majority of surface transit in Brooklyn, Queens, and Staten Island. On September 24, 1948, the BOT took over the East Side Omnibus Corporation and Comprehensive Omnibus Corporation in Manhattan, receiving two depots in East Harlem . From 1947 to 1950, the BOT reconstructed numerous depots and trolley barns inherited from the private operators, and erected or purchased new facilities to expand capacity. In 1962,
5656-423: The company based its operations out of two depots: The Flushing Depot of the company was located on the south side of Roosevelt Avenue in Flushing Meadows–Corona Park in Queens, west of 126th Street and east of the New York City Subway 's Corona Yard . This depot opened sometime in the 1900s, and housed buses serving northern Queens. It is now the Casey Stengel Depot under the MTA. The company's Jamaica Depot
5757-411: The cost of $ 1.6 million for several Transportation Manufacturing Corporation (TMC) RTS-06 CNG buses and a fleet of BIA Orion 5.501 CNGs. The depot was fully equipped with CNG on June 7, 1999, with the original "slow-fill" fueling station replaced with a "fast-fill" station. It became the first NYCTA depot to support CNG buses. Also, this depot has been modified to accommodate articulated-buses, with
5858-535: The day the new 100th Street Depot (since renamed the Tuskegee Airmen Depot) opened. The depot was part of the Manhattan Division until spring 1998, when it was transferred to the Bronx Division due to the opening of the Michael J. Quill Depot and the closure of the Walnut Depot . On January 6, 2008, MTA reopened the depot temporarily because of a rehabilitation project at the Mother Clara Hale Depot. Amsterdam Depot closed on June 27, 2010, due to service cuts. The M1 and M7 routes were transferred to Manhattanville, while
5959-502: The defunct Hudson Pier Depot , which closed in 2003. The Michael J. Quill Depot is the largest MTA depot in the city, consisting of three floors and rooftop parking for buses. It is known for a unique "drum-like" structure at the northeast corner of the site, which holds the ramps between the levels. Maintenance facilities are located on the first and second floors. It originally featured training and sleeping quarters for Greyhound drivers. The depot stores around 250 to 350 buses. It
6060-473: The depot was equipped with heaters to circulate hot water through the heating and cooling systems of buses that had to be stored outside due to the lack of storage space. The depot was later rebuilt, and it opened on September 6, 1984. On June 30, 1988, the depot was renamed after Jackie Gleason , who grew up in Brooklyn and played bus driver Ralph Kramden in The Honeymooners ; this renaming occurred one year after Gleason's death. The depot later housed
6161-430: The depots are represented by local divisions of the Transport Workers Union of America (TWU), particularly the TWU Local 100 or of the Amalgamated Transit Union (ATU)'s Local's 726 for all depots in Staten Island, 1056 for Casey Stengel, Jamaica, and Queens Village Depots, 1179 for JFK & Far Rockaway Depots, and 1181 for Spring Creek Depot. On June 1, 1940, the New York City Board of Transportation (BOT) took over
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#17327728145286262-489: The facilities of Greyston Bakery . The site was initially a freight yard for the adjacent Hudson Line , used by the New York Central Railroad . The depot was originally built by Gray Lines Tours for Riverdale Transit Corp, which later became a part of the Liberty Lines Express system. It is currently owned by New York City and leased to MTA Bus Company, sold by Liberty Lines on January 3, 2005, for $ 10.5 million. The depot consists of an administration building,
6363-401: The facility at the cost of over $ 35 million. It opened for NYCT operations on March 29, 1998 as the Westside Depot , replacing the Walnut Depot and 100th Street Depot (the latter since reopened), and was renamed after Michael J. Quill , one of the founders of the Transport Workers Union of America , on July 13, 2000. The Michael J. Quill Bus Depot had received most of its routes from
6464-450: The former BRT/BMT depots were rebuilt to match such designs. Only Ulmer Park Depot 's garage building somewhat matches his new architectural design. The new Flatbush Depot opened for bus service on January 15, 1950, along with Ulmer Park Depot. An adjacent parking lot was added in 1965, and the depot was rehabilitated in 1991. In 2009, the depot became the first to dispatch buses equipped with Plexiglas partitions to protect drivers, after
6565-481: The former site of a car rental business, and near the south end of the Newtown Creek . This modern 600,000 square feet (56,000 m ) and environmentally friendly facility is the first of its kind for New York City Transit Authority. The contract for the depot was awarded in 2003 to Granite Construction Northeast , with the design created by Gannett Fleming . The facility partially opened in 2007 housing 19 buses, and fully opened on January 6, 2008. Upon opening,
6666-475: The franchise to all bus routes in Zone B (Flushing and Northern Queens), except those operated by the New York and Queens Transit Corporation . The Q26 and Q27 were transferred to the North Shore Bus Company from Z & M Coach Company , while the Q1 and Q32 were transferred to Z & M. In addition, North Shore restored service to the Bayside West–Jamaica route, which had been discontinued a year earlier by S & C Buses. On June 25, 1939, North Shore acquired
6767-497: The high cost of converting such a large facility. Since 2010, Manhattanville Depot is one of the greenest bus depots in the city because it uses only Hybrid Electric Buses. The Michael J. Quill Depot fills the block bounded by Eleventh Avenue , the West Side Highway , 40th Street , and 41st Street in Midtown Manhattan ( 40°45′36″N 74°00′06″W / 40.760059°N 74.001671°W / 40.760059; -74.001671 ( Michael J. Quill Depot ) ), near
6868-420: The hills of such areas as Douglaston and Manhasset . By the late-1910s many trolley systems began to decline, but rather than collapse or sell themselves to other companies, the NY&NST replaced their trolley cars with buses, the majority of which operated in Queens. The economic impact of the Great Depression forced them to sell off many of their routes to other companies during the 1930s, most notably to
6969-481: The lack of storage space, the Amsterdam Depot reopened temporarily, with some routes shifted to Manhattanville and West Farms. The old depot was originally a part of the Bronx Division. A new garage was built on the site after demolition, designed as a "green depot" with solar panels and features for energy conservation and efficiency. The new depot was opened on November 20, 2014, at the cost of $ 262 million. The new depot, which can now house 150 buses, has replaced
7070-403: The lot immediately south of the depot until 2014, which was leased and used as a driving range from 1999 to 2010. This land was originally planned for an expansion of the depot, or a new central rebuild facility. In June 1996, solar panels were installed on the roof of the depot. It was the first NYCTA depot to use solar energy, which now provide about 40% of the depot's power. It is also
7171-528: The mass transit operations of NYBS, which operated express service between the Bronx to Manhattan as well as school bus operations. This depot contains a major bus overhaul and repair facility/shop for various type of buses, a major "reserve storage" facility for out-of-service buses, and a storage facility for decommissioned and wrecked buses awaiting scrapping. The latter set of buses are stripped of usable parts such as windows and engine components, as well as reusable fluids such as motor oil and fuel, before
7272-466: The north end of the complex at Bushwick Avenue. The depot was built to house over 300 buses. It currently has space for around 280 buses, including two additional outdoor parking lots south of the depot: Havens Lot at Havens Place between Herkimer Street and Atlantic Avenue , and Herkimer Lot at Herkimer Street and Williams Place underneath the BMT Canarsie Line . The depot also features
7373-859: The only New York City Transit bus garage that was built on previously undeveloped land. The Kingsbridge Depot is located in at 4055-4060 Ninth Avenue in Inwood, Manhattan ( 40°52′13″N 73°54′45″W / 40.870190°N 73.912521°W / 40.870190; -73.912521 ( Kingsbridge Depot ) ) and stretches nearly two square blocks, from Tenth Avenue to the Harlem River and from 216th Street to 218th Street. The current facility opened on February 23, 1993, and consists of two separate buildings: one for maintenance (the Ninth Avenue Shop ) and one for bus storage. The Ninth Avenue shop rebuilds individual bus components. It
7474-681: The passage of buses underneath to the depot. The new depot opened on July 27, 1960, at the cost of $ 2 million. The new depot was built to be 250 feet (76 m) wide by 500 feet (150 m) long. The initial capacity of the depot was 185 buses. The construction of the depot was required due to the loss of the West 5th Street Depot . In addition, the new depot replaced the Maspeth Trackless Trolley Depot, and Bergen Street depots located in Brooklyn. The new garage featured automatic fueling and washing facilities. The depot
7575-484: The remaining Bee Line routes and Bee Line's 165th Street Bus Terminal in Jamaica, as part of the company's takeover of nearly all routes in Zone D (Jamaica and Southeast Queens). By the 1940s, North Shore operated nearly all the bus routes in Zone B (Flushing and Northern Queens) and Zone D. On March 30, 1947 the company went bankrupt after its drivers and other employees went on strike. Its operations were taken over by
7676-472: The remaining private operators were taken over by the MTA Bus Company. The MTA inherited eight facilities at this time, which had been built either by the companies or the New York City Department of Transportation (NYCDOT). Download coordinates as: The MTA has two major "central maintenance facilities" (CMFs) that serve the New York City area. The Grand Avenue Central Maintenance Facility
7777-439: The remaining shells and unsalvageable parts are sold for scrap. The scrapping program began in summer 2008. Under the MTA, the shop was upgraded with a new concrete floor. The facility underwent further renovations in the 2010s, replacing the maintenance building's roof and improving ventilation and pollution controls including containment of fuel spills. The upgraded facility opened on August 13, 2015. The Gun Hill Depot
7878-616: The same name). Originally, the site was an amusement park called Starlight Park , which hosted the Bronx International Exposition of Science, Arts and Industries in 1918. In 1928, the park operators received the auditorium from the 1926 Sesquicentennial Exposition in Philadelphia , which became the New York Coliseum . The coliseum and park went into receivership in 1940, and the coliseum
7979-463: The second NYCT depot to facilitate CNG when it opened in 2003. Currently, not all buses assigned run on CNG. The Yonkers Depot is located at 59 Babcock Place at the foot of Alexander Street in the Getty Square section of Yonkers, New York ( 40°56′36″N 73°54′02″W / 40.943364°N 73.900463°W / 40.943364; -73.900463 ( Yonkers Depot ) ), near
8080-575: The second and third floors. The original site on 132nd Street and Broadway was a streetcar barn built in 1918 for the Fifth Avenue Coach Company , which later used it for buses. The facility was taken over by the MaBSTOA subsidiary of the Transit Authority in March 1962. It served as the headquarters for the MaBSTOA. The original depot was demolished in the late 1980s, and a new depot
8181-562: The second floor, administrative offices for NYCT's Department of Buses on the third floor, and parking garages for MTA employees on the roof. The central maintenance facility is able to repair and maintain the newer fleet of diesel, diesel hybrid-electric, 60-foot (18 m) articulated, express coach and compressed natural gas (CNG) buses, and has expanded the capabilities of the current East New York central maintenance facility for Brooklyn and Queens. The facility also has four environmentally friendly paint booths − self-contained units that avoid
8282-714: The spread of contaminants. The building meets the needs of expanding demands, and relief of the overcrowding at the Brooklyn Division's other six existing bus garages, and upgrading the Department of Buses' facilities to be state-of-the-art from both environmental and technological standpoints. Also, work to modify this depot to accommodate articulated-buses has been completed, with the B38 converted as of September 1, 2019, and work on electrically powered buses has also been completed. The Jackie Gleason Depot , called
8383-666: The streetcar operations of the Brooklyn–Manhattan Transit Corporation (BMT), as part of the unification of the city's transit system under municipal operations. The streetcar lines would be motorized into diesel bus routes or trolleybus routes over the next two decades. In 1947, the BOT took over the North Shore Bus Company in Queens and Isle Transportation in Staten Island, giving
8484-653: The three depots under NYCT, but can sometimes use Bus Company as needed. All Brooklyn local and Brooklyn express routes are operated by either the New York City Transit brand or the MTA Bus brand, although most are branded with the former; only the B100 and B103 local routes, and the BM- express routes, are operated by MTA Bus. All Brooklyn NYCT depots are represented by TWU local 100. Spring Creek Depot, operated under
8585-483: The trolley lines with bus routes in 1936, began constructing a new bus garage on the site in 1938. Operations from the new depot began on July 31, 1939. It was rehabilitated in 1990. This depot had capacity for 123 buses. On September 23, 1993, it was renamed the Mother Clara Hale Depot. The previous depot building closed in January 2008 and was demolished in spring 2009. To make up for
8686-542: The west of the Fresh Pond Yard of the New York City Subway . It was the site of a trolley depot called the Fresh Pond trolley yard, which was opened in 1907 by the Brooklyn Rapid Transit Company (BRT). In addition to repair shops, the barn hosted a "trolley car school" where new motormen were trained using a mockup of a streetcar's driver cabin. The trolley barn was acquired by the city in 1940, and
8787-491: The west, and is just south of East Tremont Avenue (also called Hector Lavoe Boulevard) and West Farms Square . The depot opened on September 7, 2003, on the site of the former Coliseum Depot . It is one of five compressed natural gas (CNG) Depots in the Buses system, along with Jackie Gleason, Spring Creek, Zerega, and College Point facilities and formerly Rockville Centre and Mitchel Field depots (now NICE bus depots under
8888-528: The western coast of Westchester Creek . Plans for the facility were conceived around 1999, and it was constructed in 2000. The facility received an award from the American Society of Civil Engineers for design-build project of the year in 2002. Around 2002, the Zerega shops began overhauling NYCT buses to operate on ultra-low-sulfur diesel . The facility includes paint booths for MTA buses, and
8989-597: Was closed after the final trolley route from the depot, the Richmond Hill Line (today's Q55 bus), was motorized into trolley bus service on April 26, 1950. The barn was razed in 1957. Construction of the current bus depot was built by the Transit Authority following the motorization of trolley service. Construction began in March 1959. In June 1959, a contract was awarded to rebuild the BMT Myrtle Avenue Line to provide adequate clearance for
9090-618: Was closed in spring 1998 and was demolished, and reconstructed, while the Michael J. Quill Depot was opened to replace it. The depot reopened on September 7, 2003, taking on a number of routes from the Hudson Depot . It became the Tuskegee Airmen Depot on March 23, 2012, in honor of the famous World War II airmen. The facility has drawn the ire of many East Harlem residents; many residents cite high asthma rates in
9191-460: Was designed to maintain compressed natural gas (CNG) equipment. It also features numerous classrooms and a driving simulator to train MTA bus operators. The Manhattan and Bronx Surface Transit Operating Authority (MaBSTOA), a subsidiary of the New York City Transit brand, operates all the local routes in the Bronx aside from the Bx23 and Q50. The latter two routes and all express bus routes in
9292-409: Was erected opening on November 8, 1992, replacing the old 54th Street Depot (also a former Fifth Avenue Coach facility) which closed the same day. In September 1998, the depot operated a pilot fleet of 10 Orion VI hybrid electric buses . Also that year, it was planned to convert the depot into a compressed natural gas (CNG) facility due to community complaints, but the plan was scrapped due to
9393-418: Was established in 1920 as the successor to the New York and North Shore Traction Company trolley system, and operated until 1947 when it went bankrupt, and its operations were taken over by the New York City Board of Transportation . The company was established in 1902 as a trolley company called the Mineola, Roslyn & Port Washington Traction Company , but as it grew into Queens it was renamed in 1907 as
9494-497: Was located on the west side of Merrick Boulevard just south of Liberty Avenue in Jamaica, Queens . The depot lies between Merrick Boulevard to the east and 165th Street to the west, and spans about three blocks north-to-south between South Road and 107th Avenue, located across from the campus of York College . This depot, which housed buses serving the Jamaica and Southeastern Queens area, opened in 1939, and expanded in subsequent years following takeover, adding bus storage areas and
9595-618: Was moved again to a facility in Yonkers , while the Kingsbridge Depot ceased serving trolleys and began serving buses in 1948. In 1962, it was acquired by the MaBSTOA. The original 1897 depot closed on September 10, 1989, when the Gun Hill Depot opened, and was razed soon after. It had fallen into disrepair and the placement of its support columns was inconvenient for bus movements in the building. The West Farms Depot
9696-553: Was replaced by the current depot on October 30, 1956, when Brooklyn streetcar service ended. Also located at the facility is the MTA's bus command center, also known as the East New York Administration Building . The brick structure built along with the current depot is located at the west end of the bus depot, facing Fulton Street at the foot of Alabama Avenue. The center was expanded in 1962, and again in 1969. The MTA plans to construct
9797-473: Was selected by the MTA for a new garage in 1979 to replace the original West Farms Depot It opened on September 10, 1989, also temporarily replacing the old Kingsbridge Depot , which closed on the same day for reconstruction. The depot also contains heavy maintenance facilities and served the Bronx's central maintenance facility upon its opening. In 1992, the MTA built little league baseball fields on an adjacent site one block west. The MTA also owned
9898-490: Was still overcrowded, since the capacity for that depot is 150 buses and is assigned 200 buses. As a result, the 50 additional buses at that depot park on surrounding streets. A project to rebuild the depot would begin in 2018, with all of its routes and buses temporarily sent to other depots. New York and North Shore Traction Company The North Shore Bus Company operated public buses in Queens , New York City. It
9999-416: Was taken over by New York City Omnibus Corporation in 1956, and the depot became municipally operated when its parent company Fifth Avenue Coach folded in 1962. The Coliseum Depot closed in 1995 and was demolished in 1997, while a new CNG-compatible facility was constructed as part of the MTA's 1995-1999 Capital Program. This included a "fast-fill" CNG filling station at the cost of $ 7.3 million. It became
10100-620: Was the first in the city to house articulated buses beginning on September 30, 1996. The roof of the depot is a public parking facility. The site of the depot was originally the Kingsbridge Car Barn , a streetcar barn owned by the Third Avenue Railway in 1897. This was a one-story brick structure with a basement and steel frame designed in Roman renaissance style with terracotta features. Among its designers included Isaac A. Hopper, who constructed Carnegie Hall . Across from
10201-604: Was used as a vehicle maintenance center for the United States Army during World War II . It was acquired by the Third Avenue Railway in April 1946, and was converted into a bus depot and repair shop for the successor Surface Transportation Corporation around 1950. The company also operated a second facility nearby, at what is now West Farms Road and the Cross Bronx Expressway. Surface Transit
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