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84-708: A public transit line in western Queens , New York City . Beginning at Queens Plaza in Long Island City , the routes run primarily along 21st Street through the neighborhoods of Long Island City and Astoria . The Q69 makes all local stops, while the Q100 makes four limited stops along the shared corridor between Queens Plaza and Ditmars Boulevard . At Ditmars Boulevard, the Q69 turns east towards Jackson Heights and East Elmhurst near LaGuardia Airport . The Q100, meanwhile, continues north of Queens across Bowery Bay to
126-412: A brown concrete structure resembling a 1970's [ sic ] filmmaker's idea of an intergalactic battle station" opened along the plaza. Strip clubs appeared in the 1990s, around the time that rehabilitation of the plaza started to be considered. By the early 2000s, Long Island City was going through gentrification , and new buildings were being put up, especially around Queens Plaza. In 2001,
168-626: A clockwise loop south along Jackson Avenue and west on 44th Drive (passing One Court Square and the Court Square subway complex), then travels north on 21st Street. At Ditmars Boulevard , the Q69 turns east through the neighborhood of Steinway . It terminates at 82nd Street and Astoria Boulevard in the Jackson Heights and East Elmhurst neighborhoods, near the Marine Air Terminal of LaGuardia Airport . Travel into
210-477: A fire truck collided with a Q100 bus traveling northward on 21st Street at Ditmars Blvd. Two firefighters and all 12 passengers on the Q100 bus were injured and taken to the hospital. In 2018, the latest year for which passenger numbers are available, the Q69 had 2,932,729 passengers while the Q100 Limited had 1,345,218 passengers. Queens Plaza (Queens) Queens Plaza is a plaza straddling
252-514: A new parallel route, the Q105 on 31st Street, would run to Rikers Island instead. A final bus-redesign plan was released in December 2023. The Q69 would still become a zone route but would be shortened to Queens Plaza, rather than extended to Hunters Point. The Q100 would still be discontinued and replaced by the parallel Q105 on 31st Street, which would run to Rikers Island. On June 29, 2016,
294-631: A south–north corridor along 21st Street through Long Island City and Astoria . The Q69 provides local service along 21st Street between Queens Plaza and Ditmars Boulevard , while the Q100 provides limited-stop service along the street. Both routes operate out of the LaGuardia Depot in East Elmhurst . The Q69 begins at 28th Street and Queens Plaza South, near the Queensboro Plaza subway station. Northbound service makes
336-593: Is the only public transit option to Rikers Island. Otherwise, travel must be done by ferry, car, or privately operated shuttle between either foot of the bridge. Prior to the MTA takeover, the then-Q101R operated non-stop between 21st Street–Queensbridge and the Queens Rikers Island parking lot. Although service on the route was expanded in February 2009 to better serve communities along the route, much of
378-588: The Independent Subway System 's Queens Boulevard Line , opened at the southeast corner of the plaza. In the 1970s, Queens Plaza became a place for drug dealers, pimps, and prostitutes to frequent, and was filled with trash, drugs, and broken glass. Later, "aging Chinese takeout restaurants , humid fried-chicken joints , sad-seeming doughnut shops , [and] the Queens Plaza Municipal Parking Garage ,
420-690: The MTA Bus Company took over the operations of the Queens Surface routes including the Q101R, part of the city's takeover of all the remaining privately operated bus routes. On February 2, 2006, the operations of Triboro Coach including the Q19A were taken over by MTA Bus. As part of the takeover, the Q101R and other former Steinway Transit routes in western Queens were moved to the former Triboro Coach depot ( LaGuardia Depot ). On April 6, 2008,
462-511: The Q101 service to Rikers Island, and originally ran non-stop between 21st Street–Queensbridge and Rikers Island. From 2005 to 2006, the routes were taken over by MTA Regional Bus Operations under the MTA Bus Company brand, and relabeled to their current designations in 2008. Since then, limited stops were added to the now-Q100 route to improve service along 21st Street. The Q69 and Q100 both begin on Queens Plaza in Long Island City , sharing
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#1732780974998504-484: The Queensboro Plaza station above the west central part of the plaza on elevated tracks. The location was the center of the 18th century village of Dutch Kills ; two millstones were preserved as relics of that time, to be displayed in a green space. The plaza itself was built to accommodate the connection of the Queensboro Bridge to Queens Boulevard, which opened in 1909. A street, named Jane Street,
546-682: The 16-floor, 183-room Hilton Garden Inn , and a 31-floor, 160-room Marriott . New office buildings are also coming into the area. Even though the Metropolitan Life Insurance Company moved two-thirds of its employees from the Brewster Building on Queens Plaza North back to Manhattan in 2006 because of the distance and lack of restaurants in Queens Plaza, airline company JetBlue and advertising and public relations firm Publicis later moved into
588-533: The 1920s through World War II , Queens Plaza served as the location for many factories and warehouses, some of which later became office buildings, as well as a financial hub with several banks. The Brewster Building , a factory along the plaza, made horse-drawn carriages , Rolls-Royces and other cars, and the Brewster F2A Buffalo fighter plane. The Long Island Savings Bank , Silvercup Bakery and Chase Manhattan Bank Building also were built on
630-737: The 82nd Street Crosstown-Ditmars route, operated from the station to 82nd Street in Jackson Heights. Through bus riders not destined for the subway had to transfer between buses. During off-peak hours, the Q33A was extended to 102nd Street and Astoria Boulevard, the terminus of what was then the Q19B route (now the Q49 ) and at that time the terminal of the Q19 . During the late 1940s and early 1950s, there were often complaints of overcrowding and bad headways on
672-531: The Q101R was renumbered as the Q100, and on April 20, 2008, the Q19A was renumbered the Q69. On June 22, 2008, the Q100 stop on 20th Avenue at the Astoria power plant was added. Q100 limited-stop service along 21st Street began on February 1, 2009. In December 2019, the MTA released a draft redesign of the Queens bus network. As part of the redesign, the Q69 bus would have become an "intra-borough" route called
714-758: The Q19A ran from the 92nd Street ferry slip in Hallets Cove, along 21st Street (Van Alst Avenue) and Ditmars Boulevard where it served the Astoria–Ditmars Boulevard station, and ended near Hazen Street. On April 10, 1931, the Woodside-Astoria Transportation company was reorganized as the Triboro Coach Corporation. Starting on August 10, 1934, the Q19A ran from the Ditmars station, was diverted from
756-541: The Q19A, such as from the Taminent Democratic Club of Long Island City. The overcrowding resulted in passengers waiting for several buses until an empty one arrived. The bus stop at the Ditmars Station served by the Q19A and Q33A was initially located in the middle of the block on 31st Street near the subway entrance and was considered more convenient for subway riders, as it was adjacent to
798-485: The Q19A, was awarded to Triboro Coach . and on October 10, 1936 the company signed the contract granting the franchise. In 1938, Triboro was asked by the Steinway Community Council to extend service along Ditmars Boulevard to East Elmhurst and in 1939, the company proposed the Q33A route along Ditmars as an extension to their existing Q33 franchise to serve the request. The Q33A, also called
840-585: The Q51 (originally the Q33A), which were combined into a single route by 1960. The older Q19A was established in the 1920s and ran from the Astoria–Ditmars Boulevard station to Queens Plaza along 21st Street, while the Q51 was established in the late 1930s and ran from the Astoria–Ditmars Boulevard station east to Jackson Heights along Ditmars Boulevard. The Q101R, meanwhile, was created in the 1980s to replace
882-642: The Q51 and replace it with an extended Q19A service, thus merging the two routes into a single route around 1960. Prior to the creation of the Q101R, the Q101 operated by Steinway Transit (successor to the Steinway Railway) served Rikers Island, running local down Steinway Street to Queens Plaza, and across the Queensboro Bridge to 59th Street and Second Avenue in Midtown Manhattan . Service to Rikers began around 1967;
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#1732780974998924-512: The QT69, running south to Hunters Point rather than to Long Island City. The QT69 would have used 44th Drive, Vernon Boulevard, and Center Boulevard on the southern portion of its route. Along 21st Street between 21st Avenue and 44th Drive, it would have been paralleled by the QT1, a "high density" route which would have run from 27th Avenue/2nd Street to Brooklyn. The Rikers Island route would have become
966-854: The QT79, a local route along 31st Street. The redesign was delayed due to the COVID-19 pandemic in New York City in 2020, and the original draft plan was dropped due to negative feedback. A revised plan was released in March 2022. As part of the new plan, the Q69 will instead become a "zone" route with a nonstop section on 21st Street between Broadway and 40th Avenue. The Q69 would still be extended to Hunters Point but would instead use 44th Drive, Vernon Boulevard, and Borden Avenue. The B62 bus would be extended to 27th Avenue/2nd Street, providing local service on 21st Street. The Q100 would be discontinued and
1008-403: The Queens Plaza area by around 2019, as it grows along with the rest of Long Island City . The New York City Traffic Control Center at 28-11 Queens Plaza North controls the city's traffic lights. The Chase Manhattan Bank Building is a New York City designated landmark , having been given such a designation in 2015. Located at 29-27 41st Avenue, with one side facing Queens Plaza North, it
1050-613: The Rikers Island parking lot. It then crosses the Rikers Island Bridge onto the island itself, passing through both security checkpoints, and terminating at the Rikers Island visitors center. Though the Q100 is the limited-stop service along the corridor, it runs much less frequently than the Q69. It operates on 10-15 minute headways during daytime hours, 30 minute headways during early mornings and evenings, and 1 hour headways during overnight hours. The Q100
1092-595: The airport requires a transfer to the Q47 or M60 SBS . The Q69 does not operate during overnight hours. The Q100 begins at Jackson Avenue between Queens Plaza South and 42nd Road, at the Queens Plaza station. After running west through the Queens Plaza area, it turns north onto 21st Street, stopping at the 21st Street–Queensbridge station at the Queensbridge Houses , then making four more stops along
1134-415: The area was rezoned, and 2,500 of about 5,000 apartments were built or planned within two blocks of the plaza. City officials decided to clean up the plaza, since the area was being gentrified. In 2005, the U.S. Congress approved a measure to demolish the municipal parking lot and turn it into a 1.5-acre (6,100 m ) park. In 2009, $ 75 million was earmarked to clean and spruce up the area and to renovate
1176-714: The bridge from Queens to the island was opened on November 22, 1966. Some local residents complained of having to share the route with Rikers-bound passengers. As a result, the service began being labeled the Q101R in the early 1990s, with the Q101 truncated to Hazen Street and 19th Avenue, no longer serving Rikers Island. Originally, the Q101R ran non-stop between Long Island City and the Rikers Island parking lot running via Steinway Street. Steinway would merge with sister company Queens Transit Corporation to become Queens-Steinway Transit Corporation in 1986. The company became Queens Surface Corporation in 1988. On February 27, 2005,
1218-548: The bridge was overcrowded with traffic, and subway tracks were built above the plaza. The Queensboro Plaza station , a large two-level subway hub for the Brooklyn–Manhattan Transit Corporation and Interborough Rapid Transit Company , opened above Queens Plaza in 1916-1917. The construction of the Queensboro Plaza station necessitated the removal of Queens Plaza's landscaped medians. From
1260-552: The center of the plaza. Immediately to the southeast of the plaza was the Sunnyside Yard , a storage yard for the Pennsylvania Railroad (now NJ Transit Rail Operations ). The addition of railroads and a bridge made Queens Plaza easily accessible from Manhattan . Queensboro Bridge Plaza or simply Bridge Plaza, as it was originally called, soon experienced an increase in real estate development. By 1915,
1302-837: The city jail complex on Rikers Island in the Bronx , providing the only public transit service to the island. The Q69 (originally the Q19A) was formerly privately operated by the Triboro Coach Corporation , and the Q100 (formerly the Q101R) by the Queens Surface Corporation , under subsidized franchises with the New York City Department of Transportation (NYCDOT). The Q19A itself was a merger of two bus routes, an older Q19A route and
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1344-829: The ferry slip, and was extended along 21st Street to Queens Plaza, where it began competing with the parallel 31st Street and Vernon Boulevard streetcar lines of the Steinway Railway (now the Q102 and Q103 buses respectively). On September 24, 1936 the New York City Board of Transportation (predecessor to the New York City Transit Authority ) separated bus service in Queens into four zones. Zone A in Western Queens ( Woodside , Astoria, and Long Island City), which included
1386-531: The first permit for the stop at the corner was not revoked, and so at the end of April 1950, Triboro decided to shift the bus stop back to the corner, this time due to several accidents with the pillars of the Astoria elevated line . As late as 1962, there were calls to reinstate the former setup. The Q33A was later renumbered to the Q51. In December 1958, Triboro Coach petitioned the Board of Estimate to eliminate
1428-417: The plaza. The renovation itself cost $ 45 million. It created a new public park within the plaza, on the former site of the municipal parking lot; the park was envisioned as an "urban oasis" or neighborhood meeting place. Another new public park, named Dutch Kills Green, was built as part of the renovation; it has 500 trees, wetlands , and pavers for storm drainage . It is right next to two new hotels :
1470-558: The plaza. Other banks included the Corn Exchange Bank , First National City Bank , and Title Guarantee and Trust Company . By 1928, 86,000 cars went through the Queensboro Bridge and onto the plaza each day. Queens Plaza came to be characterized as a "a new downtown", supplanting the Hunters Point section of Long Island City in that regard. In 1933, the Queens Plaza station , an underground subway station on
1512-594: The ridership of the Q100 still consists of inmates' family members – who are predominantly women and children – as well as prison employees. The bus also transports some released inmates, particularly women. Before the MTA takeover, the Q69 was known as the Q19A. In the 1920s, the Woodside-Astoria Transportation Company, founded by Salvatore Fornatora, began operating the Q18, Q19, Q19A, and Q24 routes. The first iteration of
1554-429: The same former factory. Real estate developer Tishman Speyer was also looking for tenants for its Queens Plaza South skyscraper, named 2 Gotham South. While only 1,000 people lived on the streets immediately surrounding the plaza as of the 2000 United States Census , the area has been undergoing substantial new development. About 4,700 new rental units in 25 new residential buildings were expected to be completed in
1596-410: The station stairs. In May 1949, Triboro Coach appealed to the police commissioner for permission to move the bus stop north to the corner of Ditmars Boulevard and 31st Street and two months later a permit was approved. In October 1949, the bus stop was shifted back to the station stairs following protests from commuters. This shift back to the stairs was made under a different, albeit temporary, permit but
1638-687: The street. At the end of 21st Street in the Ditmars section of Astoria, the Q100 turns east onto 20th Avenue, making a single stop at 31st Street in front of the Astoria Con Edison / New York Power Authority facility. It then turns north onto Hazen Street, connecting with the Q101 at 19th Avenue. Travel north of 19th Avenue (formerly Riker Avenue) is within the jurisdiction of the New York City Correction Department . The Q100 makes its final stop in Queens at
1680-510: The title Q51 . If an internal link led you here, you may wish to change the link to point directly to the intended article. Retrieved from " https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Q51&oldid=1118965844 " Category : Disambiguation pages Hidden categories: Short description is different from Wikidata All article disambiguation pages All disambiguation pages Q51 (New York City bus) The Q69 and Q100 Limited bus routes constitute
1722-481: The western end of Queens Boulevard in Long Island City , Queens , between 21st Street and Jackson Avenue/ Northern Boulevard (NY 25A). The Queensboro Bridge starts near the middle of the plaza. It has a New York City Subway stop for the E , M , and R trains, the Queens Plaza station below ground along the eastern edge, and another stop for the 7 , <7> , N and W trains,
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1764-419: Was widened by 90 feet (27 m) and was renamed Bridge Plaza North and South. Grassy medians , cut off at each intersection, divided the main and service lanes of the plaza. Sculptures made out of flowers and trees, including a 75 feet (23 m) "crescent with a Japanese cherry tree at its center", were prevalent. At the time, it was spacious, with only a few buildings on the sides and a solitary flagpole in
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