LIST OF BUS ROUTES IN BROOKLYN

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The Metropolitan Transportation Authority operates a number of 'bus routes in Brooklyn', New York, United States; one minor route is privately-operated under a city franchise. Many of them are the direct descendants of streetcar lines (see list of streetcar lines in Brooklyn); the ones that started out as bus routes were almost all operated by the Brooklyn Bus Corporation, a subsidiary of the Brooklyn-Manhattan Transit Corporation, until the New York City Board of Transportation took over on June 5, 1940. Of the 54 local Brooklyn routes operated by the New York City Transit Authority, roughly 35 are the direct descendants of one or more streetcar lines, and most of the others were introduced in full or in part as new bus routes by the 1930s.
This table gives details for the routes prefixed with "B" - in other words, those considered to run primarily in Brooklyn by the MTA. For details on routes with other prefixes, see the following articles:

★ List of bus lines in Queens: Q7, Q8, Q24, Q35, Q54, Q56, Q58, and Q59

★ List of bus lines in Staten Island: S53, S79, and S93

★ List of express bus routes in New York City: x27, x28, x29, x37, x38, BM1, BM2, BM3, BM4, and BM5
''Routes marked with an asterisk run 24 hours a day.''

Route	Terminals		Streets traveled	History	Notes
Operated by NYCTA
B1 ★ [1]	Bay Ridge	Kingsborough Community College	Bay Ridge Avenue, 13th Avenue, 86th Street, and Brighton Beach Avenue	Sheepshead Bay-area bus began April 1919 by Plum Beach Auto Stage Bay Ridge Avenue Line streetcar until May 15, 1949 Bay Ridge Avenue and 86th Street portions were B34 until 1978
B2[2]	Midwood	Kings Plaza Shopping Center	Avenue R	Began 1922 by Kings Coach Company
B3 ★ [3]	Bath Beach	Bergen Beach	Avenue U	Began 1922 by Kings Coach Company
B4[4]	Bay Ridge	Sheepshead Bay	Bay Ridge Parkway, 86th Street, Neptune Avenue, and Emmons Avenue	Began September 28, 1931 by BMT Emmons Avenue portion was B21 until 1978
B6 ★ [5]	Bath Beach	East New York	Bay Parkway, Avenue J, Avenue H, Flatlands Avenue, and Cozine Avenue	Bay Parkway bus began August 24, 1931 by BMT Cozine Avenue bus began July 1, 1968 by NYCTA as the B84	Both local and limited-stop service
B7 ★ [6]	Midwood or Flatlands	Bedford-Stuyvesant	Kings Highway, Saratoga Avenue and Thomas S Boyland Street (ex-Hopkinson Avenue)	Began June 29, 1930 by BMT
B8 ★ [7]	Bay Ridge	Brookdale Hospital, Brownsville	18th Avenue, Foster Avenue and Avenue D	Began October 22, 1925 by Queens Bus Lines
B9[8]	Bay Ridge	Kings Plaza Shopping Center	60th Street, Avenue M, and Flatbush Avenue	Began October 28, 1931 by BMT
B11[9]	Brooklyn Army Terminal, Sunset Park	Flatbush	50th Street, 49th Street, and Avenue J	Began September 21, 1931 by BMT
B12 ★ [10]	Prospect-Lefferts Gardens	Cypress Hills	Clarkson Avenue, East New York Avenue, and Liberty Avenue	Began November 23, 1931 by BMT
B13[11]	Gateway Center Mall, Spring Creek	Williamsburg	Crescent Street, Cypress Hills Street, Wyckoff Avenue, and Bushwick Avenue	Crescent Street bus began October 25, 1921 by Independent Buses Wyckoff Avenue bus began November 30, 1931 by BMT as the B18 B18 merged with this route in 2002	Via Queens
B14 ★ [12]	Crown Heights	Brooklyn General Mail Facility	Pitkin Avenue and Sutter Avenue	Began August 1925 by Eastern Parkway, Brownsville and East New York Transit Relief Association
B15 ★ [13]	Bedford-Stuyvesant	Brooklyn General Mail Facility or JFK Airport, Queens	Marcus Garvey Boulevard (ex-Sumner Avenue), Lewis Avenue, New Lots Avenue, and Conduit Avenue	Sumner Avenue Line streetcar until July 20, 1947 New Lots Avenue Line streetcar until June 28, 1941 Became B10 before being renumbered B15
B16[14]	Fort Hamilton	Prospect-Lefferts Gardens	Fort Hamilton Parkway, 14th Avenue, 13th Avenue, and Caton Avenue	Began October 28, 1931 by BMT
B17 ★ [15]	Canarsie	Crown Heights	Seaview Avenue and Remsen Avenue	Began August 17, 1931 by BMT
B20[16]	Brooklyn General Mail Facility	Ridgewood, Queens	Linden Boulevard, Pennsylvania Avenue, Decatur Street, and Summerfield Street	Began November 30, 1931 by BMT
B23[17]	Borough Park	Flatbush	16th Avenue and Cortelyou Road	Sixteenth Avenue Line streetcar until January 26, 1930 Cortelyou Road Line streetcar until July 23, 1930
B24[18]	Williamsburg	Greenpoint	Kingsland Avenue, Meeker Avenue, Kosciusko Bridge, and Greenpoint Avenue	Calvary Cemetery Line (Greenpoint Avenue) streetcar until January 26, 1930 Meeker and Marcy Avenues Line streetcar until April 17, 1939	Via Sunnyside, Queens
B25 ★ [19]	Fulton Landing	Broadway Junction	Fulton Street	Fulton Street Line streetcar until August 10, 1941
B26 ★ [20]	Downtown Brooklyn	Ridgewood, Queens	Fulton Street, Putnam Avenue, and Halsey Street	Putnam Avenue Line streetcar until February 5, 1950
B31 ★ [21]	Midwood	Gerritsen Beach	Gerritsen Avenue	Began 1922 by Kings Coach Company
B35 ★ [22]	Sunset Park	Brownsville	39th Street and Church Avenue	Church Avenue Line streetcar until October 31, 1956	Both local and limited-stop service
B36 ★ [23]	Sea Gate	Sheepshead Bay	Surf Avenue and Avenue Z	Sea Gate Line streetcar until December 1, 1946
B37 ★ [24]	Fort Hamilton	Downtown Brooklyn	3rd Avenue	Third Avenue Line streetcar until March 1, 1942
B38 ★ [25]	Downtown Brooklyn	Ridgewood, Queens	Lafayette Avenue and DeKalb Avenue	DeKalb Avenue Line streetcar until January 30, 1949	Two terminals in Ridgewood: Seneca Avenue (all times) and Metropolitan Avenue (5AM-midnight)
B39 ★ [26]	Lower East Side, Manhattan	Williamsburg	Delancey Street and Williamsburg Bridge	Williamsburg Bridge Local streetcar until December 4, 1948
B41 ★ [27]	Bergen Beach or Kings Plaza Shopping Center	Downtown Brooklyn	Flatbush Avenue	Flatbush Avenue Line streetcar until March 5, 1951	Both local and limited-stop service
B42 ★ [28]	Canarsie Pier	Canarsie-Rockaway Parkway	Rockaway Parkway	Rockaway Parkway Line streetcar until April 29, 1951
B43 ★ [29]	Prospect-Lefferts Gardens	Greenpoint	Empire Boulevard, Kingston Avenue, Brooklyn Avenue, Throop Avenue, Tompkins Avenue, Graham Avenue, and Manhattan Avenue	Tompkins Avenue Line streetcar until August 24, 1947 Graham Avenue Line streetcar until December 21, 1948 Combined from B47 and B62 on September 10, 1995[30]
B44 ★ [31]	Sheepshead Bay	Williamsburg	Nostrand Avenue, New York Avenue, Bedford Avenue, and Lee Avenue	Nostrand Avenue Line streetcar until April 1, 1951	Both local and limited-stop service
B45 ★ [32]	Downtown Brooklyn	Crown Heights	Atlantic Avenue and St. Johns Place	St. Johns Place Line streetcar until August 24, 1947
B46 ★ [33]	Kings Plaza Shopping Center	Williamsburg	Utica Avenue, Malcolm X Boulevard (ex-Reid Avenue), and Broadway	Utica and Reid Avenues Line streetcar until March 18, 1951	Both local and limited-stop service
B47 ★ [34]	Kings Plaza Shopping Center	Bedford-Stuyvesant	Ralph Avenue and Broadway	Ralph Avenue Line streetcar until November 1, 1943 Ralph and Rockaway Avenues Line streetcar until May 27, 1951 Created as a result of a merge of the B40 and B78 in 2002
B48 ★ [35]	Prospect-Lefferts Gardens	Greenpoint	Classon Avenue, Franklin Avenue, Lorimer Street, and Nassau Avenue	Franklin Avenue Line streetcar until October 28, 1945 Lorimer Street Line streetcar until December 14, 1947
B49[36]	Kingsborough Community College	Bedford-Stuyvesant	Ocean Avenue, Rogers Avenue, and Bedford Avenue	Ocean Avenue Line streetcar until April 29, 1951
B51[37]	Downtown Brooklyn	Lower Manhattan	Manhattan Bridge	began November 13, 1929 by BMT, replacing Manhattan Bridge Three Cent Line streetcar Formerly B15	Weekday service only
B52 ★ [38]	Downtown Brooklyn	Ridgewood, Queens	Greene Avenue and Gates Avenue	Greene and Gates Avenues Line streetcar until October 5, 1941
B54 ★ [39]	Downtown Brooklyn	Ridgewood, Queens	Myrtle Avenue	Myrtle Avenue Line streetcar until July 17, 1949
B57 ★ [40]	Downtown Brooklyn	Maspeth, Queens	Flushing Avenue	Flushing Avenue Line streetcar until November 21, 1948
B60 ★ [41]	Canarsie	Williamsburg	Rockaway Avenue and Wilson Avenue	Wilson Avenue Line streetcar until May 27, 1951
B61 ★ [42]	Red Hook	Long Island City, Queens	Van Brunt Street, Hicks Street, Park Avenue, Wythe Avenue, Bedford Avenue, Driggs Avenue, Manhattan Avenue, and Jackson Avenue	Crosstown Line streetcar until January 27, 1951
B63 ★ [43]	Fort Hamilton	Cobble Hill	5th Avenue and Atlantic Avenue	Fifth Avenue Line streetcar until February 20, 1949
B64 ★ [44]	Bay Ridge	Coney Island	86th Street, Bath Avenue, and Stillwell Avenue	86th Street Line streetcar until August 12, 1948
B65 ★ [45]	Downtown Brooklyn	Crown Heights	Bergen Street and Dean Street	Bergen Street Line streetcar until July 20, 1947
B67 ★ [46]	Kensington	Downtown Brooklyn	McDonald Avenue and 7th Avenue	Seventh Avenue Line streetcar until February 11, 1951
B68 ★ [47]	Coney Island	Windsor Terrace	Brighton Beach Avenue and Coney Island Avenue	Coney Island Avenue Line streetcar until November 30, 1955
B69[48]	Windsor Terrace	Downtown Brooklyn	Prospect Park West, 8th Avenue, and Vanderbilt Avenue	Vanderbilt Avenue Line streetcar until August 20, 1950
B70[49]	Dyker Heights	Sunset Park	7th Avenue, 8th Avenue, and 39th Street	Eighth Avenue Line streetcar until May 15, 1949
B71[50]	Cobble Hill	Crown Heights	Union Street and Eastern Parkway	Union Street Line streetcar until December 1, 1945
B74[51]	Sea Gate	Coney Island	Mermaid Avenue	Norton's Point Line streetcar until November 7, 1948
B75 ★ [52]	Park Slope	Downtown Brooklyn	9th Street, Smith Street, and Court Street	Court Street Line streetcar until July 17, 1949 Smith Street Line streetcar until February 11, 1951
B77 ★ [53]	Red Hook	Park Slope	Lorraine Street and 9th Street	Began August 27, 1936 by BMT
B82 ★ [54]	Coney Island	Starrett City	Cropsey Avenue, Bay Parkway, Kings Highway, Flatlands Avenue, and Pennsylvania Avenue	Began August 29, 1924 by Queens Bus Lines Combined from B5 and B50 on September 10, 1995
B83[55]	Starrett City	Broadway Junction	Pennsylvania Avenue and Van Siclen Avenue	Began September 27, 1966 by NYCTA
Operated by MTA Bus Company
B100[56]	Midwood	Mill Basin	Quentin Road, Fillmore Avenue, and 66th Street	Began February 3, 1960 by Pioneer Bus Company; later operated by Command Bus Company until 2005
B103[57]	Canarsie	Downtown Brooklyn	East 80th Street, Avenue H, Flatbush Avenue, Prospect Expressway, 4th Avenue, and 3rd Avenue	operated by Command Bus Company until 2005 Saturday service added in 2006	Limited-stop service No Sunday service
Operated by Private Transportation Corporation
B110[58]	Borough Park	Williamsburg	Fort Hamilton Parkway, 49th Street, 50th Street, and Brooklyn-Queens Expressway		Private express franchised route, authorized by NYCDOT[59]

Contents

Former routes

References

External links

Former routes

Note that the "B" prefix was not added until the mid-1970s, and, on December 11, 1988, some of the Brooklyn "B" routes primarily in Queens were redesignated as "Q" routes.^[60]

Route	Major streets	History
B5	Kings Highway, Bay Parkway and Cropsey Avenue	Now part of the B82
B10	Marcus Garvey Boulevard (ex-Sumner Avenue), Lewis Avenue, and New Lots Avenue	Now part of the B15
B15	Manhattan Bridge	became an extension of the B63; now the B51
B18	Metropolitan Avenue, Morgan Avenue, Wyckoff Avenue, and Cypress Avenue	Now part of the B13
B19	Cypress Hills Street and Gates Avenue	Now part of the B13
B19	Carlton Street and Adelphi Street
B21	Oriental Boulevard, Brighton Beach Avenue, Ocean Parkway, Avenue Z, and Emmons Avenue	Now parts of the B1, B36, and B4
B22	Broadway and Atlantic Avenue	Now the Q24
B29	Metropolitan Avenue, Kingsland Avenue, and Meeker Avenue	Now part of the B24
B30	East Williamsburg, Meeker Avenue - Sunnyside, Queens, via Humboldt Street, Kingsland Avenue, Greenpoint Avenue, Review Avenue, and 48th Street	discontinued circa 1995, due to lack of ridership
B33	Hamilton Avenue, Prospect Avenue, Parkside Avenue, and Ocean Avenue	discontinued in early 1990s, due to lack of ridership
B34	Bay Ridge Avenue, 13th Avenue, and 86th Street	Now part of the B1
B40	Broadway, Ralph Avenue, and Liberty Avenue	Now part of the B47 on Ralph Avenue
B47	Empire Boulevard, Kingston Avenue, Brooklyn Avenue, Throop Avenue, Tompkins Avenue, and Division Avenue	Now part of the B43 (other than on Division Avenue)
B50	Kings Highway, Flatlands and Seaview Avenues	Now part of the B82
B53	Grand Street and Metropolitan Avenue	Now the Q54
B55	Myrtle Avenue	Now the Q55
B56	Jamaica Avenue	Now the Q56
B58	Fresh Pond Road, Grand Avenue, and Corona Avenue	Now the Q58
B59	Grand Street and Grand Avenue	Now the Q59
B62	Flushing Avenue and Graham Avenue	Now part of the B43
B66	Court Street[61]	Now part of the B75
B72	Junction Boulevard	Became the Q72 in 1961
B78	Ralph Avenue	Now part of the B47
B82	Avenue U	Now part of the B3
B84	Flatlands Avenue and Cozine Avenue	Now part of the B6
B88	"Culture Bus Loop II" in Manhattan and Brooklyn	discontinued in the late 1970s
B86	86th Street and 4th Avenue - Manhattan Beach, Kingsborough Community College, via 86 Street and Brighton Beach Avenue	Proposed route in the 1990s.

References

★ MTA NYC Transit - Bus Service

★ Chicago Transit & Railfan Web Site: New York City Transit

★ The JoeKorNer: Brooklyn Trolleys

★ 1969 Brooklyn and Staten Island bus map
1. http://mta.info/nyct/bus/schedule/bkln/b001cur.pdf B1 schedule
2. http://mta.info/nyct/bus/schedule/bkln/b002cur.pdf B2 schedule
3. http://mta.info/nyct/bus/schedule/bkln/b003cur.pdf B3 schedule
4. http://mta.info/nyct/bus/schedule/bkln/b004cur.pdf B4 schedule
5. http://mta.info/nyct/bus/schedule/bkln/b006cur.pdf B6 schedule
6. http://mta.info/nyct/bus/schedule/bkln/b007cur.pdf B7 schedule
7. http://mta.info/nyct/bus/schedule/bkln/b008cur.pdf B8 schedule
8. http://mta.info/nyct/bus/schedule/bkln/b009cur.pdf B9 schedule
9. http://mta.info/nyct/bus/schedule/bkln/b011cur.pdf B11 schedule
10. http://mta.info/nyct/bus/schedule/bkln/b012cur.pdf B12 schedule
11. http://mta.info/nyct/bus/schedule/bkln/b013cur.pdf B13 schedule
12. http://mta.info/nyct/bus/schedule/bkln/b014cur.pdf B14 schedule
13. http://mta.info/nyct/bus/schedule/bkln/b015cur.pdf B15 schedule
14. http://mta.info/nyct/bus/schedule/bkln/b016cur.pdf B16 schedule
15. http://mta.info/nyct/bus/schedule/bkln/b017cur.pdf B17 schedule
16. http://mta.info/nyct/bus/schedule/bkln/b020cur.pdf B20 schedule
17. http://mta.info/nyct/bus/schedule/bkln/b023cur.pdf B23 schedule
18. http://mta.info/nyct/bus/schedule/bkln/b024cur.pdf B24 schedule
19. http://mta.info/nyct/bus/schedule/bkln/b025cur.pdf B25 schedule
20. http://mta.info/nyct/bus/schedule/bkln/b026cur.pdf B26 schedule
21. http://mta.info/nyct/bus/schedule/bkln/b031cur.pdf B31 schedule
22. http://mta.info/nyct/bus/schedule/bkln/b035cur.pdf B35 schedule
23. http://mta.info/nyct/bus/schedule/bkln/b036cur.pdf B36 schedule
24. http://mta.info/nyct/bus/schedule/bkln/b037cur.pdf B37 schedule
25. http://mta.info/nyct/bus/schedule/bkln/b038cur.pdf B38 schedule
26. http://mta.info/nyct/bus/schedule/bkln/b039cur.pdf B39 schedule
27. http://mta.info/nyct/bus/schedule/bkln/b041cur.pdf B41 schedule
28. http://mta.info/nyct/bus/schedule/bkln/b042cur.pdf B42 schedule
29. http://mta.info/nyct/bus/schedule/bkln/b043cur.pdf B43 schedule
30. New York Times, Coming Transit Reductions: What They Mean for You, August 20, 1995, section 13, page 10
31. http://mta.info/nyct/bus/schedule/bkln/b044cur.pdf B44 schedule
32. http://mta.info/nyct/bus/schedule/bkln/b045cur.pdf B45 schedule
33. http://mta.info/nyct/bus/schedule/bkln/b046cur.pdf B46 schedule
34. http://mta.info/nyct/bus/schedule/bkln/b047cur.pdf B47 schedule
35. http://mta.info/nyct/bus/schedule/bkln/b048cur.pdf B48 schedule
36. http://mta.info/nyct/bus/schedule/bkln/b049cur.pdf B49 schedule
37. http://mta.info/nyct/bus/schedule/bkln/b051cur.pdf B51 schedule
38. http://mta.info/nyct/bus/schedule/bkln/b052cur.pdf B52 schedule
39. http://mta.info/nyct/bus/schedule/bkln/b054cur.pdf B54 schedule
40. http://mta.info/nyct/bus/schedule/bkln/b057cur.pdf B57 schedule
41. http://mta.info/nyct/bus/schedule/bkln/b060cur.pdf B60 schedule
42. http://mta.info/nyct/bus/schedule/bkln/b061cur.pdf B61 schedule
43. http://mta.info/nyct/bus/schedule/bkln/b063cur.pdf B63 schedule
44. http://mta.info/nyct/bus/schedule/bkln/b064cur.pdf B64 schedule
45. http://mta.info/nyct/bus/schedule/bkln/b065cur.pdf B65 schedule
46. http://mta.info/nyct/bus/schedule/bkln/b067cur.pdf B67 schedule
47. http://mta.info/nyct/bus/schedule/bkln/b068cur.pdf B68 schedule
48. http://mta.info/nyct/bus/schedule/bkln/b069cur.pdf B69 schedule
49. http://mta.info/nyct/bus/schedule/bkln/b070cur.pdf B70 schedule
50. http://mta.info/nyct/bus/schedule/bkln/b071cur.pdf B71 schedule
51. http://mta.info/nyct/bus/schedule/bkln/b074cur.pdf B74 schedule
52. http://mta.info/nyct/bus/schedule/bkln/b075cur.pdf B75 schedule
53. http://mta.info/nyct/bus/schedule/bkln/b077cur.pdf B77 schedule
54. http://mta.info/nyct/bus/schedule/bkln/b082cur.pdf B82 schedule
55. http://mta.info/nyct/bus/schedule/bkln/b083cur.pdf B83 schedule
56. http://mta.info/busco/schedules/b100cur.pdf B100 schedule
57. http://mta.info/busco/schedules/b103cur.pdf B103 schedule
58. New York City Department of City Planning, Greenpoint-Williamsburg Environmental Impact Statement, Chapter 17: Transit and Pedestrians, March 4, 2005
59. Mayor Michael R. Bloomberg Signs Legislation Extending Franchises for Unsubsidized Buses (press release), June 30, 2004
60. New York Times, All Aboard...Somewhere...for Subway Changes!, December 12, 1988, seciton B, page 1
61. New York Board of Transportation, Report for the Three and One-half Years Ending June 30, 1949

External links

★ NYC Transit Authority official website

★ Brooklyn bus schedule

★ MTA Bus company bus schedule

★ Brooklyn bus map