Below are the depots formerly used by the MTA and its predecessors for municipal bus operations, excluding facilities inherited by the city but not used for city-operated buses. Many of the depots were demolished or abandoned following their closure. Some have been converted for other uses by the MTA or other organizations. One depot, the 54th Street Depot, was demolished to make room for a new MTA facility outside of bus operations. It was originally the site of a railroad and trolley terminal called the
Culver Depot, built by the Prospect Park and Coney Island Railroad, operators of the
Culver surface line along present-day McDonald Avenue in 1875. This depot was built on Surf Avenue between West 5th Street and West 8th Street, serving surface railroad and later
Brighton and
Culver elevated trains, as well as streetcars. The terminal also served the streetcar lines of the competing
Coney Island and Brooklyn Railroad, including its
Smith Street Line. was built by the Coney Island and Brooklyn Railroad in 1912 exclusively for streetcars. and the original Culver terminal was razed in 1923, with all streetcar service going to the West 5th Street Depot. As a streetcar facility, it featured a concrete storage garage at its north end, and a two-floor passenger terminal building at its south end facing Surf Avenue, with seven track loops in the center of the complex for terminating streetcars. at which point it was likely converted for bus service. The bus depot was closed on July 27, 1960, replaced by the
Fresh Pond Depot in Queens. It is now the site of the Brightwater Towers apartment complex, built in the 1960s shortly after the depot was demolished.
12th Street Depot The
12th Street Depot was located at East 12th Street between
1st Avenue &
Avenue A in
Lower Manhattan. It used to be a taxi garage. The depot was near the former 39th Street Ferry Terminal, served by
Church Avenue Line streetcars until 1956. and the facility became a bus depot for the company. In March 1962, it fell under municipal operations. Before it closed in 1992, it operated the following Manhattan bus routes, M6, M7, M11, M42, M27/M50, M57, M72, and M79. The contract for the command center was awarded in November 1997, with the intent of creating a central control room for the
New York City Subway that would implement
automation of the system, including
automatic train protection. The use of non-union labor by the construction contractor led to a protest by thousands of union members at the site and at the MTA's midtown headquarters in June 1998. Adjacent to the control center is an NYCT parking lot on the east side of Ninth Avenue. The parking lot is planned to be redeveloped into affordable housing as part of the "Western Rail Yard" project, which would redevelop this site and the
West Side Yard on West 33rd Street. -->
126th Street Depot The
126th Street Depot fills the city block bounded by
First Avenue,
Second Avenue, and 126th and 127th Streets, near the
Harlem River Drive,
Triborough Bridge, and
Willis Avenue Bridge in
East Harlem, Manhattan. The address is 2460 Second Avenue (), A former trolley yard, the site was opened as a Central Bronx bus depot in 1947 by
Surface Transit Inc., the successor to the streetcars of the
Third Avenue Railway. It housed the buses (and served as a northern terminal) for the
M15 and
M15 SBS, the second busiest bus route in the
United States and the busiest in the city Several structures have occupied the site since the beginning of European settlement of the area. In the late 19th century, an amusement park and dance hall were erected on the site. In 2008, a historical 17th century
African American burial ground used by the Low Dutch Reformed Church of Harlem, the first church in
Harlem, and its successor the
Elmendorf Reformed Church, was discovered at the site. The MTA consequently agreed to move most of the depot's routes to the reopened
Mother Clara Hale Depot. with the land returned to the city; it was slated to be demolished. The 128th Street facility is used to store express buses during midday hours. These facilities were added in 1989 and 1991, The 128th Street annex is on the former site of the storage yard for the
129th Street Station of the
Second and
Third Avenue elevated lines.
Bergen Street Depot The
Bergen Street Shop is located at 1415 Bergen Street/1504 Dean Street between Albany and Troy Avenues in
Crown Heights, Brooklyn (). The facility is bound by Dean Street at its north end and Bergen Street at its south end. It currently serves as the
New York City Transit Sign Shop (also called the Bergen Sign Shop or Bergen Street Sign Shop), producing numerous signs for the Transit Authority, particularly those used in the
New York City Subway. It was originally the
Bergen Street Trolley Coach Depot, operated as a streetcar barn by the
Brooklyn, Queens County and Suburban Railroad, and later under the BRT/BMT system until unification in 1940. It was reconstructed and enlarged under city operations between 1947 and 1948, and reopened on September 16, 1948, as a
trolleybus (trolley coach) depot. The depot served the
Bergen Street Line (),
Lorimer Street Line (),
St. Johns Place Line (),
Graham Avenue Line and Tompkins Avenue Line (), and Flushing Avenue Line (). The depot stored 122 trolley coaches,
Brook Street Depot Brook Street Depot is located at 100 Brook Street/539 Jersey Street in
Tompkinsville, Staten Island (). The site is bound by Brook Street to the north,
Victory Boulevard to the south, Pike Street to the east, and Jersey Street and Castleton Avenue to the west. It was originally a streetcar barn built around 1902 for the
Richmond Light and Railroad Company, which became Richmond Railways in 1927. It was acquired by the city Board of Transportation in 1947, That year, it was converted into a garage for the
New York City Department of Sanitation (DSNY).
Crosstown Depot vehicles stored at the Crosstown Depot. The
Crosstown Depot, (formerly Greenpoint Trolley Depot), and also referred to as the
Crosstown Annex Facility is located at 55/65 Commercial Street near the intersection of Commercial and Box Streets in the neighborhood of
Greenpoint, Brooklyn, on the southern shore of
Newtown Creek (). The first Crosstown Depot was opened in 1885 as a streetcar depot by the
Brooklyn Heights Railroad, located at
Manhattan Avenue between Box and Clay Streets. It later become part of the BRT/BMT system under the
Brooklyn and Queens Transit Corporation (B&QT). The original depot consisted of a two-story brick building, with trolley loops at ground level used for turning trolleys. In September 1951, the old Crosstown Depot was sold by the Board of Transportation and used as a warehouse for a box manufacturer. On June 30, 1952, the depot was the origin point of an eight-alarm fire that killed at least one person and destroyed 15 buildings including the depot. The site on Commercial Street was originally a refinery for the
American Sugar Refining Company (predecessor to
Domino Sugar) opened in 1868, and later became a trolley storage yard and washing facility for the B&QT. It was fully converted into a bus depot in 1954. The current depot consists of a two-story brick administration building facing Commercial Street, and shop for repairs, inspection and washing facing Newtown Creek, along with a large storage lot for buses. The depot operations ended on November 7, 1981, because of service reductions and operating cost. It later stored several new
General Motors-built
RTS-04 buses awaiting entry into revenue service in 1982. The Crosstown Depot has since been converted to a paint shop and road service operations facility, located in the former repair shop. The facility contains three paint booths to paint MTA buses, the third of which was installed in 2001. The site also houses the
New York City Subway's Department of Emergency Response in the former administration building, and an
Access-A-Ride storage facility utilizing the former bus storage area.
DeKalb Depot The
DeKalb Depot, also known as the
DeKalb Avenue Depot or
DeKalb Avenue Shops, was located on the east side of
DeKalb Avenue between Onderdonk and Seneca Avenues in
Ridgewood, Queens. It was leased from Pouch Terminal, Inc. in 1977, Although the TA initially planned to rehabilitate the depot, Edgewater was permanently abandoned in 1985 when it was found to be structurally unsafe for use as a bus depot. It was originally a Pouch Terminal warehouse, re-purposed for office use from 1973 to the 1980s.
Hudson Depot The
Hudson Depot or
Hudson Pier Depot was located on
Hudson River Pier 57 at
15th Street in the present
Hudson River Park in
Chelsea, Manhattan (). The address was 11 11th Avenue. This depot was built from 1950 to 1954 as a shipping pier. The pier was abandoned in 1967 by
Grace Line and remained unused for several years. The depot opened on September 11, 1972, replacing the 12th Street Depot, and providing indoor storage for over 200 buses previously parked on city streets. It held up to 165 buses. The nearby
Coliseum Depot was renamed the
West Farms Depot when it reopened in 2003. == Notes ==