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The R7 was created on November 21, 1964, the same day the Verrazano-Narrows Bridge was opened, and ran across the bridge to provide service between Brooklyn and Staten Island, running between Fourth Avenue-95th Street and Clove Road-Victory Boulevard. A lot of patrons used the route on weekends for a scenic ride during the initial operation ...
The following electric streetcar lines once operated in Staten Island, New York, United States. The first trip was on July 4, 1892, and the last was on January 26, 1934. The streetcar lines were mostly preceded by horse-car lines, and have generally been superseded by MTA Staten Island bus routes. [1] [2]
Brooklyn and Queens Transit Corporation, the main company after 1929; Brooklyn City Railroad; Brooklyn Heights Railroad; Brooklyn, Queens County and Suburban Railroad; Coney Island and Brooklyn Railroad; Coney Island and Gravesend Railway; Nassau Electric Railroad; Companies not owned by the BRT/BMT or jointly owned. Brooklyn and North River ...
The depot was constructed in the late 1940s to provide urgently needed storage space for city-owned buses on Staten Island. [5] [6] When Isle Transportation went bankrupt in 1947, the city's Board of Transportation (predecessor of NYC Transit) took control of the majority of Staten Island bus operations.
List of bus routes in Staten Island: S53, S79 Select Bus Service, S93; List of express bus routes in New York City: BM1, BM2, BM3, BM4, BM5, X27, X28, X37, X38; Service operation is generally defined as: Weekday rush hours: 6:30 AM – 9:30 AM and 3:30 PM – 8 PM; Midday service: 9:30 AM – 3:30 PM; Evening service: 8 PM – Midnight
Buses left Staten Island at 7:30, 7:45, and 8 a.m., and left Manhattan at 4:45, 5, and 5:15 p.m. [200] Became X10 in 1976; In September 1994, two non-revenue trips were converted to revenue trips, providing one reverse commute trip in the AM from Manhattan and on in the PM to Manhattan to serve the College of Staten Island. [201]
Former B&QT streetcar #4547 at the Seashore Trolley Museum. The Brooklyn and Queens Transit Corporation (B&QT) was a subsidiary of the Brooklyn–Manhattan Transit Corporation that operated streetcars in Brooklyn and Queens, New York City, United States (as well as into Manhattan via the Brooklyn Bridge and Williamsburg Bridge).
[175]: 36 Some of the longest routes are in Staten Island, where the average bus line is 10.6 miles (17.1 km) long. The longest local bus route in the city, the S78, is 20.8 miles (33.5 km) long and spans the entire length of Staten Island. Brooklyn also has several long bus routes, and the borough hosts three of the city's ten longest routes.