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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.
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]
First Avenue East 34th Street: M34 (EB) Both routes (WB) NYC Bus: M15, M15 SBS (all buses northbound only) 28th Street Second Avenue: Eastbound NYC Bus: M9, M15, M15 SBS (all buses southbound only) 23rd Street Second Avenue: NYC Bus: M9, M15, M15 SBS (all buses southbound only); M23 SBS. First Avenue VA Hospital
[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 retained its number. [19] The bus was renamed the M23 to match the street it ran on in 1989. [22]
The route begins at West 79th Street and Riverside Drive in the Upper West Side. It proceeds east along 79th Street to Amsterdam Avenue, where the eastbound bus uses Amsterdam Avenue to get to 81st Street; the westbound bus uses 81st Street to get to Columbus Avenue and then takes that down to 79th Street. After Central Park West, the bus then ...
The M15 bus, which runs along much of the IRT Second Avenue Elevated Line's route, is one of the busiest bus routes in New York City. [9] However, it does not carry as many passengers as a rapid transit line, and transfers to rapid transit stations can only be made using surface connections.