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The 34th Street Crosstown Line is a surface transit line on 34th Street in Manhattan, New York City, United States. It currently hosts the M34/M34A SBS routes of MTA 's Regional Bus Operations . The M34 runs from 12th Avenue to FDR Drive via 34th Street, while the M34A runs from Port Authority Bus Terminal to Waterside Plaza .
The earliest source found by The New York Times using the term Sutton Place dates to 1883. At that time, the New York City Board of Aldermen approved a petition to change the name from "Avenue A" to "Sutton Place", covering the blocks between 57th and 60th Streets. [5] [6] The block between 59th and 60th Streets is now considered a part of York ...
New York City Omnibus Corporation buses route (M23 - 5) replaced New York Railways' Sixth Avenue Line streetcar on March 3, 1936. New York City Omnibus Corporation buses route (M22 - 6) replaced New York Railways' Broadway Line streetcar on March 6, 1936. The routes were combined as a one-way pair on November 10, 1963, and kept the number 6.
The New York and Harlem Railroad (NY&H) was the first railroad in Manhattan, opening from City Hall north along Centre Street, Broome Street (northbound trains were later moved to Grand Street), the Bowery, Fourth Avenue, and Park Avenue to Harlem in the 1830s, and was extended southwest along Park Row to Broadway in 1852.
After Washington Square Park was closed to bus traffic on September 2, 1963, its southern terminus (and that of today's M2 and M3) was moved to 8th Street west of University Place, then turning on there to 9th Street towards Fifth Avenue. [12]
Sutton House is a three-building residential cooperative with a private garden at 415 East 52nd Street on the Turtle Bay neighborhood of Manhattan in New York City.The building was designed by John M. Kokkins and Stephen C. Lyras in the modern style and was built by Kolyer Construction Corporation, originally as a luxury rental building managed by Douglas Elliman and owned by seven owners ...
In 1940, the City of New York purchased the New York, Westchester and Boston Railway, and began integrating the line into the system. [18]: 59–60 Plans were made for restoring the old line north into Westchester County, but ultimately failed, [19] and the superfluous track and overhead catenary on the old NYW&B were scrapped by 1943. [20]
The SS label was first applied in 1967, when some services were relabeled due to the completion of the Chrystie Street Connection (see New York City Subway nomenclature § History). The "2007 Holiday Shopper's Special", which ran on December Sundays, is a train of museum subway cars.