Search results
Results from the WOW.Com Content Network
The BQX's proposed route between Red Hook and Sunset Park was eliminated in August 2018, and a routing through Dumbo was shelved in favor of a more direct routing through Downtown Brooklyn. The route was thereby shortened from a 16-mile (26 km) alignment with 30 stops to an 11-mile (18 km) alignment with 26 stops.
The entire route was a single line, the B61, until January 3, 2010; [4] the B62 was previously a separate, parallel route between Downtown Brooklyn and Greenpoint, [8] now part of the B43 route. The streetcar line, B61 and the original B62 previously operated from the now-closed Crosstown Depot in Greenpoint. [9]
Brooklyn Bridge 9th Street and Smith Street February 11, 1951 now the B57 bus Third Avenue Line: Fort Hamilton: Brooklyn Bridge 3rd Avenue March 1, 1942 B37 bus until June 2010, service restored June 29, 2014 Fifth Avenue Line: Fort Hamilton: Cobble Hill: 5th Avenue and Atlantic Avenue February 20, 1949 now the B63 bus Seventh Avenue Line ...
The B67 and B69 bus routes comprise a public transit line in Brooklyn, New York City. Both bus routes originated as streetcar lines: The B67 originated as the Seventh Avenue Line, while the B69 originated as the Vanderbilt Avenue Line. The current bus routes are operated by MTA Regional Bus Operations.
The Church Avenue Line is a public transit line in Brooklyn, New York City, running mainly along 39th Street and Church Avenue between Sunset Park and Brownsville.Originally a streetcar line, it is now the B35 bus route, operated by MTA New York City Bus' Jackie Gleason Depot in Sunset Park.
Bus service numbered the B63 replaced streetcar service on February 20, 1949. [14] In February 2011, the B63 became the first bus route in Brooklyn to test the tracking real time arrival system called MTA Bus Time. [15] [16] The pilot program was implemented after similar technology had been tested on the M16 and M34 buses in Manhattan during ...
The B70 bus route is a public transit line in Brooklyn in New York City, running mostly on 8th Avenue and 39th Street between Sunset Park and Fort Hamilton. [3] [4] The route was originally a streetcar line known as the Eighth Avenue Line, and is currently operated by MTA New York City Bus.
The Brooklyn, Queens County and Suburban Railroad, owned by the Long Island Traction Company (later the Brooklyn Rapid Transit Company or BRT), leased the Broadway Railroad in early 1894, and the line was electrified in late October. [12] The BRT would become the Brooklyn–Manhattan Transit Corporation (BMT) in 1923. [13]