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The Port Authority Bus Terminal (colloquially known as the Port Authority and by its acronym PABT) is a bus terminal located in Manhattan in New York City. It is the busiest bus terminal in the world by volume of traffic, [2] serving about 8,000 buses and 225,000 people on an average weekday and more than 65 million people a year.
The New York City Transit Authority (also known as NYCTA, the TA, [2] or simply Transit, [3] 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 ...
New York City's remaining four boroughs are collectively referred to as the outer boroughs. Brooklyn Landmark nineteenth-century brownstones in the Greenpoint Historic District of Brooklyn, New York City's most populous borough. Brooklyn (co-extensive with Kings County), on the western tip of Long Island, is the city's most populous borough.
The B47 is a surface transit line on Ralph Avenue in Brooklyn, New York City. Once a streetcar line, [3] it is now part of the B47 bus route, operated by the New York City Transit Authority, Prior to 1995, it was the B78 route; the northern part of the route from St. Johns Place to Woodhull Hospital was part of the B40 line.
The first mayor of the expanded city was Robert Anderson Van Wyck . The longest-serving mayors have been Fiorello H. La Guardia (1934–1945), Robert F. Wagner Jr. (1954–1965), Ed Koch (1978–1989) and Michael Bloomberg (2002–2013), each of whom was in office for twelve years (three successive four-year terms).
This route replaced New York Railways' Avenue C Line streetcar on September 21, 1919. Recent history [ edit ] Due to the 2010 budget crisis, the M21 which ran to 29th Street via Avenue C and weekend service was discontinued on June 27, 2010, in conjunction with an extension to its current terminus at Grand Street and FDR Drive. [4]
G.W. Bridge-bound Bx36 in Washington Heights. The Bx36 replaced 180th Street Crosstown Line streetcars on October 25, 1947. Its original south-eastern terminus was at Bruckner Boulevard-Zerega Avenue via Cross Bronx Expressway, running all times except nights until February 1984. On February 14, 1965, every other bus on the route was extended ...
A New Lots-bound B84 bus entering service on Seaview Avenue . The Flatlands Avenue Line, consisting of the B84, is a public transit line in Brooklyn in New York City, running mostly on Flatlands Avenue right between East New York and Spring Creek. The route began operating in 2013, replicating the B83 route in East New York through Jerome ...