B52 (New York City bus)
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| System | MTA Regional Bus Operations | ||
| Operator | New York City Transit Authority | ||
| Garage | Fresh Pond Depot | ||
| Predecessors | Greene and Gates Avenues Line streetcar | ||
| Route | |||
| Locale | Brooklyn | ||
| Start | Downtown Brooklyn – Cadman Plaza and Tillary Street | ||
| Via | Fulton Street, Greene Avenue, Gates Avenue | ||
| End | Ridgewood Terminal – Wyckoff Avenue & Palmetto Street | ||
| Service | |||
| Operates | All times[1] | ||
| Annual patronage | 3,579,984 (2017)[2] | ||
| Transfers | Yes | ||
| Timetable | B52 | ||
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The Greene and Gates Avenues Line is a public transit line in Brooklyn, New York City, United States, running mostly along Fulton Street, Greene Avenue, and Gates Avenue between Downtown Brooklyn and Ridgewood, Queens. Originally a streetcar line, it is now the B52 bus route, operated by the New York City Transit Authority.
History
The Brooklyn City Railroad opened a branch of their Fulton Street Line along Greene Avenue, Franklin Avenue, and Gates Avenue to Broadway by 1874.[3] By 1897, the line was extended northeast along Gates Avenue past Broadway to Myrtle Avenue, and east along Myrtle Avenue on trackage built for the Bushwick Avenue Line to Ridgewood, Queens.[4] Buses were substituted for streetcars on October 5, 1941.
References
- ^ http://web.mta.info/nyct/bus/schedule/bkln/b052cur.pdf
- ^ "Facts and Figures". mta.info. August 28, 2011. Retrieved January 19, 2016.
- ^ J.B. Beers and Company, Brooklyn, 1874 (with Brooklyn City Rail Road lines overprinted)
- ^ Rand McNally, Brooklyn and vicinity, 1897 Atlas of the World
External links
Media related to B52 (New York City bus) at Wikimedia Commons
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