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EspañolBUS DEPOTS OF THE NEW YORK CITY TRANSIT AUTHORITY
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The 'New York City Transit Authority' (NYCTA) and its subsidiary, the Manhattan and Bronx Surface Transit Operating Authority (MaBSTOA), operates local and express buses out of a number of bus depots in all five boroughs of New York City, United States. Some of these depots were once car barns for streetcars, while others were built later and have only served buses.
New York City Transit Authority has two major central maintenance facilities that serves in the New York City area. The 'East New York Central Maintenance Facility' is located adjacent to East New York Depot in Brooklyn and the 'Zerega Avenue Central Maintenance Facility' is located at 750 Zerega Avenue in the Bronx. Both facilities are responsible for major maintenance work on New York City Transit Authority's bus fleet and surface transportation training/instruction facility. Zerega Avenue Central Maintenance Facility is responsible of registry for new buses. [1]
The 'Gun Hill Depot' is located on Bartow Avenue west of the New England Thruway in Baychester, Bronx. It opened on September 10, 1989, and was the first NYCTA depot to use solar panels, which now provide about 40% of the depot's power.
The 'Kingsbridge Depot' is located in the block bounded by Ninth Avenue, Tenth Avenue, and 216th and 218th Streets in Inwood, Manhattan. Two blocks to the south is the New York City Subway's 207th Street Yard. The depot was originally a car barn, and became the location of the central repair shop in 1947, when the 65th Street Shops closed. In 1948, the shop was again relocated to the depot in Yonkers. The original 1897 depot stood until 1990.
The 'Mother Clara Hale Depot', formerly the '146th Street Depot', fills the block bounded by Lenox Avenue, Seventh Avenue, and 146th and 147th Streets in Harlem, Manhattan. The depot is named for Harlem humanitarian Clara Hale.
The site of the depot was initially home to the 'Lenox Avenue Car House', a 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.[2] The New York City Omnibus Corporation, which had replaced the former trolley lines with bus routes in 1936, began constructing a new bus garage on the site in 1938.[3] Operations from the new depot began on July 31, 1939.[4]
The 'West Farms Depot' is located along East 177th Street and next to a terminated Sheridan Expressway in Tremont, Bronx. Opened on September 7, 2003 on the site of the former 'Coliseum Depot' .New York City Transit - History and Chronology, accessed March 12, 2007
The 'East New York Depot' is located between Jamaica Avenue and Bushwick Avenue in East New York, Brooklyn, just east of the New York City Subway's East New York Yard. The depot opened in 1859 as a car barn for the Broadway Railroad's Broadway Line.
The 'Flatbush Depot' is located in Flatlands, Brooklyn, near the Kings Plaza shopping center, where a number of bus routes terminate. The depot occupies two blocks, 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.[5][5][5] The depot, designed by architect D. R. Collin of the BRT, was intended to be the first of a new system-wide design, but few of the company's depots, mostly inherited from former streetcar operators, were rebuilt to match.[8] It eventually served a number of lines from the Flatbush area, including the Bergen Beach Shuttle, Flatbush Avenue Line, Nostrand Avenue Line, Ocean Avenue Line, and Utica Avenue Line.
The 'Fresh Pond Depot' is located on the east side of Fresh Pond Road south of Madison Street in Ridgewood, Queens, and lies just west of the Fresh Pond Yard of the New York City Subway.
The 'Jackie Gleason Depot', formerly the 'Fifth Avenue Depot' until June 30, 1988,[9] is located on the east side of Fifth Avenue between 36th and 39th Streets in Sunset Park, Brooklyn. Named after Jackie Gleason, who grew up in Brooklyn and played bus driver Ralph Kramden in ''The Honeymooners'', it is just west of the 36th-38th Street Yard of the New York City Subway. The depot was equipped with a compressed natural gas fueling station on June 7, 1999, the first NYCTA depot to support CNG buses. CNG testing began in 1990, when the NYCTA was testing Transportation Manufacturing Corporation RTS-06 CNG demonstration model buses.
The 'Ulmer Park Depot' is located at 2249 Harway Avenue in the neighborhood of Bensonhurst, Brooklyn. The depot fills the block bounded by 25th Avenue, Bay 38th Street, Harway Avenue, and Bath Avenue. It was open for operation in 1950 and is a single story, 118,800 square foot building. [10]
The '100th Street Depot' fills the block bounded by Park Avenue, Lexington Avenue, and 99th and 100th Streets on the Upper East Side of Manhattan. The depot was closed in spring 1998 - when the Michael J. Quill Depot opened - and reopened on September 7, 2003, taking on a number of routes from the Hudson Depot. It was formerly a car barn for streetcars on the Lexington Avenue Line.
The '126th Street Depot' fills the block bounded by First Avenue, Second Avenue, and 126th and 127th Streets, near the Harlem River Drive, Triborough Bridge, and Willis Avenue Bridge in East Harlem, Manhattan. Among bus routes it stores the buses for is the M15, the busiest bus route in the world, carrying over 6,000,000 passengers a day. [11]
The 'Manhattanville Depot', formerly the '132nd Street Depot', is located in the block bounded by Broadway, Riverside Drive, and 132nd and 133rd Streets in Manhattanville, Manhattan.
The 'Michael J. Quill Depot' fills the block bounded by Eleventh Avenue, the West Side Highway, 40th Street, and 41st Street in Midtown Manhattan. The depot opened in spring 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 depot is the former New York headquarters and bus garage for Greyhound Lines, which sold it to the NYCTA in 1996.
All Queens division bus depots are members of Amalgamated Transit Union Local 1056 of Queens, New York.[12]
The 'Casey Stengel Depot', formerly the 'Flushing Depot', is 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. The depot is named after Casey Stengel, former manager of the New York Yankees and New York Mets, and is near Shea Stadium, where the Mets play.
The 'Jamaica Depot' is located on the west side of Merrick Boulevard between South Road and 107th Avenue in Jamaica, Queens. Constructed in 1940, it is currently the oldest of all the New York City Transit Depots.
The 'Queens Village Depot' is located on 97-11 222nd Street between 97th and 99th Avenues in Queens Village, Queens. The depot was open on September 8th, 1974 and it is formerly on the site of Dugan's Bakery. It has 202,178 square feet of space. Queens Village Depot building won an Award Honor for engineering excellence from the New York Association of Consulting Engineers. [13]
All Staten Island division bus depots are the members of Amalgamated Transit Union Local 726 of Staten Island, New York. [14]
The 'Castleton Depot' is located on 1390 Castelton Avenue and fills the block bounded by Jewett Avenue, Hurst Street, and Rector Street in Port Richmond, Staten Island.
The 'Yukon Depot' is located on 40 Yukon Avenue between Richmond Avenue and Forest Hill Road in the center of Staten Island, just south of the Staten Island Mall.
The '12th Street Depot' was acquired from the Fifth Avenue Coach Company in 1962, and closed in 1971.
The '54th Street Depot' was located in the block bounded by Eighth Avenue, Ninth Avenue, 53rd Street, and 54th Street in Midtown Manhattan. It was originally the car barn of the Ninth Avenue Railroad.
The 'Amsterdam Depot' was located in the block bounded by Amsterdam Avenue, Convent Avenue, and 128th and 129th Streets in Manhattanville, Manhattan. The MTA shut down the Amsterdam Depot's bus operations on September 7, 2003, the day the new 100th Street 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.Straphangers Campaign, Slow Going: New York City Transit Bus Service, accessed March 12, 2007 The depot was once a Third Avenue Railway car barn.
The 'Hudson Depot' or 'Hudson Pier Depot' was located on Hudson River Pier 57 at 15th Street in the present Hudson River Park in Chelsea, Manhattan. It was opened in 1971 and closed on September 7, 2003, transferring many of its routes to the reopened 100th Street Depot.Testimony by State Senator José M. Serrano given before the City Council Transportation Committee Hearing on MTA Environmental Practices, October 18, 2006[15]
The 'Walnut Depot' was located on 132nd Street east of the Hell Gate Bridge in Port Morris, Bronx. The NYCTA bought the depot from the F. W. Woolworth Company for $1.8 million in 1979,[16] and opened it to buses in the mid-1980s. The depot was sold to the New York Post for a new printing plant[17] and closed in spring 1998, replaced by the Michael J. Quill Depot.
The 'West Farms Depot' was located at the southwest corner of Boston Road and 177th Street in West Farms, Bronx.[18] Built in 1894 by the Union Railway as a car barn,[19] it was used to store buses until ca. 1983. The former Coliseum Depot was renamed the West Farms Depot when it reopened in 2003.
★ Bus depots of the MTA Bus Company
1. Zegera Avenue and East New York Central Maintenance Facilities, accessed May 24, 2007
2. New York Times, New Trolley a Success, July 10, 1895, page 5
3. New York Times, Garage to Replace Harlem Car House, May 24, 1938, page 36
4. New York Times, 3-Acre Bus Garage to be Opened Today, July 31, 1939, page 11
5.
6.
7.
8. Brian J. Cudahy, How We Got to Coney Island: Development of Mass Transportation in Brooklyn and Kings County, page 223
9. The Daily Herald, Jackie Gleason depot dedicated in Brooklyn, July 1, 1988
10. [1] Ulmar Park Depot description in the MTA "Notice of Public Hearing and Description of Projects for fiscal 2008", page 72 document (page 85 on PDF), accessed May 28, 2007
11. http://www.economist.com/world/na/displaystory.cfm?story_id=9047239
12. Casey Strengel Depot website, accessed May 24, 2007
13. [2] Former Queens Village website access by archive.org (Information located in the Photo Album link), accessed May 26, 2007
14. [3] ATU 726 Staten Island website, accessed May 26, 2007
15. David W. Chen, Hoping for a Waterfront Makeover Just South of Chelsea Piers, New York Times, October 15, 2003, section B, page 6
16. New York Times, Auditors Fault Transit Authority, September 19, 1985, section B, page 6
17. New York Times, M.T.A. Approves Sale of a Bronx Bus Depot to The Post for a Printing Plant, March 27, 1998, section B, page 10
18. Real Estate Weekly, Crotona Park to see new retail complex, May 22, 2002
19. Bronx Historical Society, 350th Anniversary of the Bronx: Commemorative Issue, 1989
★ Urban Transit Club (UTC) New York City Bus Roster
The sticker on this bus, below the MTA logo, indicates that it belongs to the Ulmer Park Depot.
The 'New York City Transit Authority' (NYCTA) and its subsidiary, the Manhattan and Bronx Surface Transit Operating Authority (MaBSTOA), operates local and express buses out of a number of bus depots in all five boroughs of New York City, United States. Some of these depots were once car barns for streetcars, while others were built later and have only served buses.
Central Maintenance Facilities
New York City Transit Authority has two major central maintenance facilities that serves in the New York City area. The 'East New York Central Maintenance Facility' is located adjacent to East New York Depot in Brooklyn and the 'Zerega Avenue Central Maintenance Facility' is located at 750 Zerega Avenue in the Bronx. Both facilities are responsible for major maintenance work on New York City Transit Authority's bus fleet and surface transportation training/instruction facility. Zerega Avenue Central Maintenance Facility is responsible of registry for new buses. [1]
Bronx Division
Gun Hill Depot
The 'Gun Hill Depot' is located on Bartow Avenue west of the New England Thruway in Baychester, Bronx. It opened on September 10, 1989, and was the first NYCTA depot to use solar panels, which now provide about 40% of the depot's power.
Kingsbridge Depot
The 'Kingsbridge Depot' is located in the block bounded by Ninth Avenue, Tenth Avenue, and 216th and 218th Streets in Inwood, Manhattan. Two blocks to the south is the New York City Subway's 207th Street Yard. The depot was originally a car barn, and became the location of the central repair shop in 1947, when the 65th Street Shops closed. In 1948, the shop was again relocated to the depot in Yonkers. The original 1897 depot stood until 1990.
Mother Clara Hale Depot
The 'Mother Clara Hale Depot', formerly the '146th Street Depot', fills the block bounded by Lenox Avenue, Seventh Avenue, and 146th and 147th Streets in Harlem, Manhattan. The depot is named for Harlem humanitarian Clara Hale.
The site of the depot was initially home to the 'Lenox Avenue Car House', a 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.[2] The New York City Omnibus Corporation, which had replaced the former trolley lines with bus routes in 1936, began constructing a new bus garage on the site in 1938.[3] Operations from the new depot began on July 31, 1939.[4]
West Farms Depot
The 'West Farms Depot' is located along East 177th Street and next to a terminated Sheridan Expressway in Tremont, Bronx. Opened on September 7, 2003 on the site of the former 'Coliseum Depot' .New York City Transit - History and Chronology, accessed March 12, 2007
Brooklyn Division
East New York Depot
The 'East New York Depot' is located between Jamaica Avenue and Bushwick Avenue in East New York, Brooklyn, just east of the New York City Subway's East New York Yard. The depot opened in 1859 as a car barn for the Broadway Railroad's Broadway Line.
Flatbush Depot
The 'Flatbush Depot' is located in Flatlands, Brooklyn, near the Kings Plaza shopping center, where a number of bus routes terminate. The depot occupies two blocks, 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.[5][5][5] The depot, designed by architect D. R. Collin of the BRT, was intended to be the first of a new system-wide design, but few of the company's depots, mostly inherited from former streetcar operators, were rebuilt to match.[8] It eventually served a number of lines from the Flatbush area, including the Bergen Beach Shuttle, Flatbush Avenue Line, Nostrand Avenue Line, Ocean Avenue Line, and Utica Avenue Line.
Fresh Pond Depot
The 'Fresh Pond Depot' is located on the east side of Fresh Pond Road south of Madison Street in Ridgewood, Queens, and lies just west of the Fresh Pond Yard of the New York City Subway.
Jackie Gleason Depot
The northwest corner of the Jackie Gleason Depot
The 'Jackie Gleason Depot', formerly the 'Fifth Avenue Depot' until June 30, 1988,[9] is located on the east side of Fifth Avenue between 36th and 39th Streets in Sunset Park, Brooklyn. Named after Jackie Gleason, who grew up in Brooklyn and played bus driver Ralph Kramden in ''The Honeymooners'', it is just west of the 36th-38th Street Yard of the New York City Subway. The depot was equipped with a compressed natural gas fueling station on June 7, 1999, the first NYCTA depot to support CNG buses. CNG testing began in 1990, when the NYCTA was testing Transportation Manufacturing Corporation RTS-06 CNG demonstration model buses.
Ulmer Park Depot
The 'Ulmer Park Depot' is located at 2249 Harway Avenue in the neighborhood of Bensonhurst, Brooklyn. The depot fills the block bounded by 25th Avenue, Bay 38th Street, Harway Avenue, and Bath Avenue. It was open for operation in 1950 and is a single story, 118,800 square foot building. [10]
Manhattan Division
100th Street Depot
The '100th Street Depot' fills the block bounded by Park Avenue, Lexington Avenue, and 99th and 100th Streets on the Upper East Side of Manhattan. The depot was closed in spring 1998 - when the Michael J. Quill Depot opened - and reopened on September 7, 2003, taking on a number of routes from the Hudson Depot. It was formerly a car barn for streetcars on the Lexington Avenue Line.
126th Street Depot
The '126th Street Depot' fills the block bounded by First Avenue, Second Avenue, and 126th and 127th Streets, near the Harlem River Drive, Triborough Bridge, and Willis Avenue Bridge in East Harlem, Manhattan. Among bus routes it stores the buses for is the M15, the busiest bus route in the world, carrying over 6,000,000 passengers a day. [11]
Manhattanville Depot
The 'Manhattanville Depot', formerly the '132nd Street Depot', is located in the block bounded by Broadway, Riverside Drive, and 132nd and 133rd Streets in Manhattanville, Manhattan.
Michael J. Quill Depot
Bird's eye view of busses parked at the Quill depot at night
The 'Michael J. Quill Depot' fills the block bounded by Eleventh Avenue, the West Side Highway, 40th Street, and 41st Street in Midtown Manhattan. The depot opened in spring 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 depot is the former New York headquarters and bus garage for Greyhound Lines, which sold it to the NYCTA in 1996.
Queens Division
All Queens division bus depots are members of Amalgamated Transit Union Local 1056 of Queens, New York.[12]
Casey Stengel Depot
The 'Casey Stengel Depot', formerly the 'Flushing Depot', is 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. The depot is named after Casey Stengel, former manager of the New York Yankees and New York Mets, and is near Shea Stadium, where the Mets play.
Jamaica Depot
The 'Jamaica Depot' is located on the west side of Merrick Boulevard between South Road and 107th Avenue in Jamaica, Queens. Constructed in 1940, it is currently the oldest of all the New York City Transit Depots.
Queens Village Depot
The 'Queens Village Depot' is located on 97-11 222nd Street between 97th and 99th Avenues in Queens Village, Queens. The depot was open on September 8th, 1974 and it is formerly on the site of Dugan's Bakery. It has 202,178 square feet of space. Queens Village Depot building won an Award Honor for engineering excellence from the New York Association of Consulting Engineers. [13]
Staten Island Division
All Staten Island division bus depots are the members of Amalgamated Transit Union Local 726 of Staten Island, New York. [14]
Castleton Depot
The 'Castleton Depot' is located on 1390 Castelton Avenue and fills the block bounded by Jewett Avenue, Hurst Street, and Rector Street in Port Richmond, Staten Island.
Yukon Depot
The 'Yukon Depot' is located on 40 Yukon Avenue between Richmond Avenue and Forest Hill Road in the center of Staten Island, just south of the Staten Island Mall.
Former depots
12th Street Depot
The '12th Street Depot' was acquired from the Fifth Avenue Coach Company in 1962, and closed in 1971.
54th Street Depot
The '54th Street Depot' was located in the block bounded by Eighth Avenue, Ninth Avenue, 53rd Street, and 54th Street in Midtown Manhattan. It was originally the car barn of the Ninth Avenue Railroad.
Amsterdam Depot
The 'Amsterdam Depot' was located in the block bounded by Amsterdam Avenue, Convent Avenue, and 128th and 129th Streets in Manhattanville, Manhattan. The MTA shut down the Amsterdam Depot's bus operations on September 7, 2003, the day the new 100th Street 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.Straphangers Campaign, Slow Going: New York City Transit Bus Service, accessed March 12, 2007 The depot was once a Third Avenue Railway car barn.
Hudson Depot
The 'Hudson Depot' or 'Hudson Pier Depot' was located on Hudson River Pier 57 at 15th Street in the present Hudson River Park in Chelsea, Manhattan. It was opened in 1971 and closed on September 7, 2003, transferring many of its routes to the reopened 100th Street Depot.Testimony by State Senator José M. Serrano given before the City Council Transportation Committee Hearing on MTA Environmental Practices, October 18, 2006[15]
Walnut Depot
The 'Walnut Depot' was located on 132nd Street east of the Hell Gate Bridge in Port Morris, Bronx. The NYCTA bought the depot from the F. W. Woolworth Company for $1.8 million in 1979,[16] and opened it to buses in the mid-1980s. The depot was sold to the New York Post for a new printing plant[17] and closed in spring 1998, replaced by the Michael J. Quill Depot.
West Farms Depot (old)
The 'West Farms Depot' was located at the southwest corner of Boston Road and 177th Street in West Farms, Bronx.[18] Built in 1894 by the Union Railway as a car barn,[19] it was used to store buses until ca. 1983. The former Coliseum Depot was renamed the West Farms Depot when it reopened in 2003.
See also
★ Bus depots of the MTA Bus Company
References
1. Zegera Avenue and East New York Central Maintenance Facilities, accessed May 24, 2007
2. New York Times, New Trolley a Success, July 10, 1895, page 5
3. New York Times, Garage to Replace Harlem Car House, May 24, 1938, page 36
4. New York Times, 3-Acre Bus Garage to be Opened Today, July 31, 1939, page 11
5.
6.
7.
8. Brian J. Cudahy, How We Got to Coney Island: Development of Mass Transportation in Brooklyn and Kings County, page 223
9. The Daily Herald, Jackie Gleason depot dedicated in Brooklyn, July 1, 1988
10. [1] Ulmar Park Depot description in the MTA "Notice of Public Hearing and Description of Projects for fiscal 2008", page 72 document (page 85 on PDF), accessed May 28, 2007
11. http://www.economist.com/world/na/displaystory.cfm?story_id=9047239
12. Casey Strengel Depot website, accessed May 24, 2007
13. [2] Former Queens Village website access by archive.org (Information located in the Photo Album link), accessed May 26, 2007
14. [3] ATU 726 Staten Island website, accessed May 26, 2007
15. David W. Chen, Hoping for a Waterfront Makeover Just South of Chelsea Piers, New York Times, October 15, 2003, section B, page 6
16. New York Times, Auditors Fault Transit Authority, September 19, 1985, section B, page 6
17. New York Times, M.T.A. Approves Sale of a Bronx Bus Depot to The Post for a Printing Plant, March 27, 1998, section B, page 10
18. Real Estate Weekly, Crotona Park to see new retail complex, May 22, 2002
19. Bronx Historical Society, 350th Anniversary of the Bronx: Commemorative Issue, 1989
External links
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