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M79 (New York City Bus)
The M79 Select Bus Service, formerly the 79th Street Crosstown Line, is a bus line in Manhattan, New York City, running mostly along 79th Street (Manhattan), 79th Street on the Upper West Side, Upper West and Upper East Sides of Manhattan. The route was previously owned by the private Green Bus Lines, and is now part of MTA Regional Bus Operations, operated by the Manhattan and Bronx Surface Transit Operating Authority under the New York City Transit brand. The route was renumbered from the M17 to the M79 in 1987, and was converted into a Select Bus Service route in 2017. Route description The M79 bus runs crosstown along 79th Street (Manhattan), 79th Street in Upper Manhattan. The route begins at West 79th Street and Riverside Drive (Manhattan), Riverside Drive on 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 (Manhattan), 81st Street; the westbound bus uses 81st Street to get to ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
MTA Regional Bus Operations
MTA Regional Bus Operations (RBO) is the Public transport bus service, bus operations division of the Metropolitan Transportation Authority in New York City. The MTA operates local, limited-stop, express, and Select Bus Service (bus rapid transit) services across the city of New York, forming a key part of Transportation in New York City, the city's transportation system. The system's fleet of over 5,000 buses is the largest in the United States, and many of Lists of bus routes in New York City, its over 300 routes operate 24/7 service, 24/7. MTA Regional Bus Operations was formed in 2008 to consolidate the MTA's bus operations, which currently consist of two operating companies. MTA New York City Bus operates citywide, with its origins in New York City's first municipal bus service in 1919. MTA Bus operates primarily in Queens, and was formed in 2006 to take over 7 private bus companies. The two operating companies have distinct administration and history, but they operate as a ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
79th Street (Manhattan)
79th Street is a major two-way street on the Upper East Side and Upper West Side of the New York City borough of Manhattan. It runs in two major sections: between East End and Fifth Avenues on the Upper East Side, and between Columbus Avenue and Henry Hudson Parkway on the Upper West Side. The two segments are connected by the 79th Street transverse across Central Park, as well as one block of 81st Street. On the West Side, the street is entirely within the boundaries of ZIP Code 10024; on the East Side, the street is part of ZIP Code 10075. Description On the Upper East Side, East 79th Street stretches from East End Avenue, passing the New York Public Library Yorkville Branch to Fifth Avenue. where the entrance to the 79th Street Transverse is flanked by The 79th Street transverse crosses Central Park between Children's Gate at Fifth Avenue, and Hunter's Gate at Central Park West and 81st Street on the Upper West Side. 79th Street does not exist between Central Park W ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
MTA Bus Time
MTA Bus Time, stylized as BusTime, is a Service Interface for Real Time Information, automatic vehicle location (AVL), and passenger information system provided by the Metropolitan Transportation Authority (MTA) of New York City for customers of its bus operations under the New York City Bus and MTA Bus Company brands. First tested in late 2010 and officially launched in early 2011, MTA Bus Time was installed in all MTA bus routes in New York City by 2014. The software uses Global Positioning System (GPS) technology equipped in buses to relay real-time location information to passengers via internet-enabled devices (particularly smartphones), SMS messages, or countdown clocks installed at bus stops. Since 1996, the MTA had tried to install positioning technology for buses through numerous pilot programs, which were implemented in various stages. Usage and software MTA Bus Time allows riders to track the location of buses along a route. On computer browsers, the service u ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Metropolitan Transportation Authority
The Metropolitan Transportation Authority (MTA) is a New York state public benefit corporations, public benefit corporation in New York (state), New York State responsible for public transportation in the New York metropolitan area, New York City metropolitan area. The MTA is the largest public transit authority in North America, serving 12 counties in Downstate New York, along with two counties in southwestern Connecticut under contract to the Connecticut Department of Transportation, carrying over 11 million passengers on an average weekday systemwide, and over 850,000 vehicles on its MTA Bridges and Tunnels, seven toll bridges and two tunnels per weekday. History Founding In February 1965, New York governor Nelson Rockefeller suggested that the New York State Legislature create an authority to purchase, operate, and modernize the Long Island Rail Road (LIRR). The LIRR, then a subsidiary of the Pennsylvania Railroad (PRR), had been operating under bankruptcy protection since 1 ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
80th Street (Manhattan)
The borough of Manhattan in New York City contains 214 numbered east–west streets ranging from 1st to 228th, the majority of them designated in the Commissioners' Plan of 1811. These streets do not run exactly east–west, because the grid plan is aligned with the Hudson River, rather than with the cardinal directions. Thus, the majority of the Manhattan grid's "west" is approximately 29 degrees north of true west; the angle differs above 155th Street, where the grid initially ended. The grid now covers the length of the island from 14th Street north. All numbered streets carry an East or West prefix – for example, East 10th Street or West 10th Street – which is demarcated at Broadway below 8th Street, and at Fifth Avenue at 8th Street and above. The numbered streets carry crosstown traffic. In general, but with numerous exceptions, even-numbered streets are one-way eastbound and odd-numbered streets are one-way westbound. Most wider streets, and a few of the narr ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
York Avenue (Manhattan)
York Avenue, Sutton Place, and Sutton Place South are the names of segments of a north–south thoroughfare in the Yorkville, Lenox Hill, and Sutton Place neighborhoods of the East Side of Manhattan, in New York City. York Avenue runs from 59th to 92nd Streets through eastern Lenox Hill and Yorkville on the Upper East Side. Sutton Place and Sutton Place South run through their namesake neighborhood along the East River and south of the Queensboro Bridge. Sutton Place South runs from 57th to 53rd Streets. Unlike most north–south streets in Manhattan, building address numbers along Sutton Place South increase when headed south. Sutton Place runs from 57th to 59th Streets. The streets are considered among the city's most affluent, and both portions are known for upscale apartments, much like the rest of the Upper East Side. Addresses on York Avenue are continuous with that of Avenue A in the Alphabet City neighborhood, starting in the 1100 series and rising to the 1700 ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
New York City Transit
The New York City Transit Authority (also known as NYCTA, the TA, or simply Transit, and branded as MTA New York City Transit) is a public-benefit corporation in the U.S. state of New York that operates public transportation in New York City. Part of the Metropolitan Transportation Authority, the busiest and largest transit system in North America, the NYCTA has a daily ridership of 8million trips (over 2.5billion annually). The NYCTA operates the following systems: * New York City Subway, a rapid transit system serving Manhattan, the Bronx, Brooklyn, and Queens * Staten Island Railway, a rapid transit line on Staten Island (operated by the subsidiary Staten Island Rapid Transit Operating Authority) * New York City Bus, an extensive bus network serving all five boroughs (operated by the subsidiary MTA Regional Bus Operations) Name As part of establishing a common corporate identity, the Metropolitan Transportation Authority in 1994 assigned popular names to each of its subsidi ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Green Bus Lines
Green Bus Lines, also referred to as Green Lines, was a private bus company in New York City. It operated local service in Queens and express service to Manhattan until January 9, 2006, when the city-operated MTA Bus Company took over its routes. It was managed most recently by Jerome Cooper (1928–2015). Green Bus Lines routes primarily operated in the Jamaica, Ozone Park, Howard Beach, South Jamaica, and the Rockaways areas of Queens, along with service to the passenger and cargo areas of John F. Kennedy International Airport. At the time of its closure, Green Lines operated more local and limited bus routes than any other private company in the city. Stockholders of Green Bus Lines also held control of other private bus companies in Queens and Brooklyn as Transit Alliance. These companies were Triboro Coach, Jamaica Buses, and Command Bus Company, all of which were absorbed into the MTA Regional Bus operations. The company reorganized as GTJ Reit Inc., a real estate inve ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
New York City
New York, often called New York City (NYC), is the most populous city in the United States, located at the southern tip of New York State on one of the world's largest natural harbors. The city comprises five boroughs, each coextensive with a respective county. The city is the geographical and demographic center of both the Northeast megalopolis and the New York metropolitan area, the largest metropolitan area in the United States by both population and urban area. New York is a global center of finance and commerce, culture, technology, entertainment and media, academics, and scientific output, the arts and fashion, and, as home to the headquarters of the United Nations, international diplomacy. With an estimated population in 2024 of 8,478,072 distributed over , the city is the most densely populated major city in the United States. New York City has more than double the population of Los Angeles, the nation's second-most populous city. [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
M86 SBS (New York City Bus)
The 86th Street Crosstown Line is a bus line in Manhattan, New York City, running mostly along 86th Street on the Upper West and Upper East Sides of Manhattan. Originally a streetcar line, it now comprises the M86 Select Bus Service bus line. The M86 has the highest per-mile ridership of all bus routes in the city, and the second highest ridership of all Manhattan crosstown routes after the M14A/D routes along 14th Street. Because of this, the M86 became a Select Bus Service route in July 2015. Route description Streetcar service The 86th Street Crosstown Line was originally a streetcar line operated by the New York Railways Company. The route originally ran between Central Park West (Eighth Avenue) and the 92nd Street ferry terminal in Yorkville. At the terminal, passengers connected to ferries traveling across the East River to Astoria, Queens. It was the last of the company's lines to begin operation. It was also the only line in Manhattan to cross Central Park. Current ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
M72 (New York City Bus)
The M72 bus route constitutes a public transit line in Manhattan, running crosstown on 72nd Street (Manhattan), 72nd Street from the Upper East Side to the Upper West Side. Route description The westbound M72 starts at 72nd Street and York Avenue, looping around via York Avenue, 71st Street and First Avenue, before turning west onto 72nd Street, until 5th Avenue. Due to there not being a transverse at 72nd Street, the M72 runs south on 5th Avenue to use the 65th Street Transverse, alongside the M72, using Central Park West to return to 72nd Street. It continues west on 72nd Street until West End Avenue, continuing south and then west on 70th Street. It then continues west and then south on Riverside Boulevard until making a right turn and terminating onto Freedom Place. The eastbound M72 starts at 66th Street and Freedom Place. It runs north on Freedom Place and then east onto 70th Street, where it follows the route of the westbound M72 until 5th Avenue, where it continues eas ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
