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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.
New Greyhound bus terminal and old Penn Station, 1936. John D. Hertz started the Yellow Cab Company in 1915, which operated hireable vehicles in a number of cities including New York. Hertz painted his cabs yellow after he had read a study that identified yellow as being the most visible color from a long distance.
The 42nd Street–Port Authority Bus Terminal station is an express stop that abuts the Port Authority Bus Terminal. The A and E trains stop here at all times, [47] [48] while the C train stops here at all times except late nights. [49] It has one operational platform level, two offset island platforms, and a long mezzanine.
Construction on a new $10 billion Port Authority Bus Terminal in Manhattan could begin at the end of this year — the long-awaited start of a project to reconstruct a 73-year-old facility that ...
A restored New York City Omnibus 1948 GMC Bus at the Circle Line terminal in 2009 This is NYC Transit originally fleet no. 4789 renumbered to represent NYCO 2969 and lettered New York City Omnibus for historical reasons. The original 2969 was a GM TDH 4509 a year or so newer than the bus in the photo.
The first bus company in Manhattan was the Fifth Avenue Coach Company, which began operating the Fifth Avenue Line (now the M1 route) in 1886. When New York Railways began abandoning several streetcar lines in 1919, the replacement bus routes (including the current M21 and M22 routes) were picked up by the New York City Department of Plant and ...
Flag used by the Port Authority, a bicolor of Buff and Blue with the coat of arms of New Jersey and New York surmounted on gold fringe. The Port Authority of New York and New Jersey, (PANYNJ; stylized, in logo since 2020, as Port Authority NY NJ) is a joint venture between the U.S. states of New York and New Jersey, established in 1921 through an interstate compact authorized by the United ...
A pedestrian tunnel, maintained by the Port Authority of New York and New Jersey, links the bus terminal to the subway station. This tunnel is closed at night. [66] The bus station is also within walking distance of the 181st Street station of the same line, and the 181st Street IRT Broadway–Seventh Avenue Line station on the 1 train. [64]