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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.
Split off from original B61 route on January 3, 2010. [142] B63: Fifth Avenue Line (Brooklyn surface) streetcar until February 20, 1949. First bus route in New York City in February 2011 to test tracking real time arrival system called MTA BusTime. [144] B64 Bay Ridge Avenue Line streetcar until May 15, 1949.
now the B61 bus Crosstown Line: Red Hook: Greenpoint: Columbia Street, Flushing Avenue, Wythe Avenue, Driggs Avenue, Bedford Avenue, and Manhattan Avenue January 27, 1951 now the B61 & B62 bus 65th Street-Fort Hamilton Line: Fort Hamilton: Sunset Park 3rd Avenue and 2nd Avenue March 1, 1942 Hamilton Avenue Line: Bay Ridge: Red Hook: 3rd Avenue ...
The B67, which supplemented service in Downtown Brooklyn along Jay Street before the elimination of the B75, continues to serve that section of the route. The B61 is operated by MTA New York City Bus' Jackie Gleason Depot in Sunset Park, and the B57 is dispatched from the Grand Avenue Depot in Maspeth, Queens.
The Far Rockaway Depot and the John F. Kennedy Depot (or JFK Depot) are garages that were operated by Green Bus Lines until January 9, 2006, [4] when MTA Bus took over and started operating the old company's bus routes. Both depots are now owned by GTJ Reit Inc (the successor to Green Lines), except for the newly built annex building at Far ...
A 2018 XD40 (7523) on the B60 approaching Williamsburg Bridge Plaza, during the route’s fare-free program. As part of a pilot program by the MTA to make five bus routes free (one in each borough), the B60 was selected alongside the Bx18, M116, Q4 and S46/96 to become fare-free in July 2023.
The B61 bus route runs one block east of the circuit along Van Brunt Street, between Downtown Brooklyn and Park Slope/Windsor Terrace. [61] [3] [62] The closest New York City Subway stations are the Carroll Street and Smith–Ninth Streets on the IND Culver Line (F and G trains) along Smith Street.
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 ...