The Second Avenue Railroad was a
street railway
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company in
Manhattan
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,
New York City
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,
United States
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. Its lines included the
Second Avenue Line.
The line ran from Peck Slip in
Lower Manhattan
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to the Harlem River. It included branches to the 92nd Street Ferry along the
86th Street Crosstown Line
The 86th Street Crosstown Line is a bus line in Manhattan, New York City, running mostly along 86th Street (Manhattan), 86th Street on the Upper West Side, Upper West and Upper East Sides of Manhattan. Originally a tram, streetcar line, it now co ...
and through 59th Street and First Avenue at the
First Avenue Line. Between 1898 and 1908, it was leased by the
Metropolitan Street Railway
The New York Railways Company operated street railways in Manhattan, New York City, United States between 1911 and 1925. The company went into receivership in 1919 and control was passed to the New York Railways Corporation in 1925 after which a ...
.
The
East Side Omnibus Corporation replaced the Second Avenue Line with the M15 bus route and the First Avenue Line with the M13 bus route on First Avenue on June 26, 1933. The routes were combined into a
one-way pair
A one-way pair, one-way couple, or couplet refers to that portion of a bi-directional traffic facilitysuch as a road, bus, streetcar, or light rail linewhere its opposing flows exist as two independent and roughly parallel facilities.
Descriptio ...
on June 4, 1951 and kept the number M15. Limited stop service began on February 11, 1974. Today it is part of the M15
Select Bus Service
Select Bus Service (SBS; stylized as +busservice) is a brand used by the Metropolitan Transportation Authority (MTA)'s Regional Bus Operations for limited-stop bus routes with some bus rapid transit features in New York City. The first SBS route ...
line.
References
Streetcar lines in Manhattan
Defunct public transport operators in the United States
Defunct New York (state) railroads
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