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The First and Second Avenues Line, also known as the Second Avenue Line, is a bus route in Manhattan, New York City, running mostly along Second Avenue (and northbound on First Avenue since 1951) from Lower Manhattan to East Harlem.
The first bus company in Manhattan was the Fifth Avenue Coach Company, which began operating the Fifth Avenue Line (now the M1 route) in 1886. When New York Railways began abandoning several streetcar lines in 1919, the replacement bus routes (including the current M21 and M22 routes) were picked up by the New York City Department of Plant and ...
The primary First Avenue server is the M15/M15 Select Bus Service. It runs uptown from Houston Street to East 126th Street, while downtown buses use the parallel Second Avenue. [46] Other bus routes include the following: [46] The uptown M9 runs on it between East 20th and East 29th Streets, terminating at Bellevue Hospital at East 26th Street.
On July 14, 1965, the directors of the Manhattan and Bronx Surface Transit Operating Authority passed a resolution approving the extension of the route from the terminal of the route at First Avenue and East 34th Street to First Avenue and East 27th Street to serve Bellevue Hospital during late evenings.
The M15 local serves the entirety of Second Avenue south of East 126th Street. The M15 Select Bus Service, the Select Bus Service equivalent of the local M15 bus, provides bus rapid transit service along Second Avenue southbound. These two are the primary Second Avenue servers. Other bus routes include the following: [18]
Second Avenue East 86th Street: NYC Bus: M15 Local, M15 SBS (all buses southbound only) NYC Subway: at 86th Street. First Avenue East 86th Street: NYC Bus: M15 Local, M15 SBS (all buses northbound only) York Avenue East 87th / 86th Streets: NYC Bus: M31. York Avenue East 88th 89th Streets: Eastbound York Avenue East 91st Street: Bidirectional ...
The route became the M26 on July 1, 1974 as part of the renumbering of bus routes in Manhattan. [19] [20] [21] The bus route had been numbered 15, and before its renumbering there were three Manhattan routes numbered 15. The 15 Jackson Heights–Fifth Avenue was renumbered to M32 at the same time, while the M15 Second and First Avenue line ...
The Select Bus Service route was to be implemented by January 6, 2019, three months before the tunnel was set to shut down. It was to initially run with five stops in each direction between First Avenue/14th Street and 10th Avenue/14th Street. Local service on the M14A and M14D would be retained with minor modifications. [13]