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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.
It then continues on Wadsworth Avenue until it turns to West 181st Street, and follows the same route as the streetcar line, using exclusive bus lanes in the median of Edward L. Grant Highway. However, it deviates from the streetcar route at West Farms Road, continuing northeast along the street until reaching Jennings Street, where it terminates.
Of the 55 local Brooklyn routes operated by the New York City Transit Authority, roughly 35 are the direct descendants of one or more streetcar lines, and most of the others were introduced in full or in part as new bus routes by the 1930s. Only the B32, the eastern section of the B82 (then the B50), the B83, and the B84 were created by New ...
The TB bus route was started on July 11, 1936, by New York Omnibus Company, when the Triborough Bridge opened, after being announced that it would be studied if a shuttle service could be operated on the bridge. [5] The route ran between Harlem, Randalls and Wards Islands, Port Morris and Astoria. [6]
A bus stop at Flatbush/Utica Avenues in Brooklyn, serving the Q35 and other routes. The Q35 bus route operates between Midwood, Brooklyn at the Flatbush Avenue–Brooklyn College subway station, served by the 2 and 5 trains, and Rockaway Park, Queens at the Rockaway Park–Beach 116th Street subway station, served by the A and S trains.
Portion of rush hour-only route between Bedford Park and White Plains Road (via East Gun Hill Road) was retained, but not officially acknowledged in Bronx Bus Map editions until 1990. Portion of route between West Farms Square–East Tremont Avenue ( trains) and Grand Concourse-Burnside Avenue ( near Tremont Avenue ( train) ) via Tremont Avenue ...
The Union Turnpike express routes consist of eight bus routes: the QM1, QM5, QM6, QM7, QM8, QM31, QM35, and QM36. They begin at three different termini in Northeast Queens, each running via different corridors. [6] [2] [3] All eight bus routes run along Union Turnpike west of 188th Street, then along Queens Boulevard and the Long Island Expressway.
Buses left the old FACCo route at 40th Street, heading south on the old NYCO route on Park Avenue and Broadway. The NYCO's 2 and FACCo's 2 (since extended to 168th Street via Edgecombe Avenue) were combined. Again, the southbound route generally followed the FACCo's 2, and the northbound route was the NYCO's 2.