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Pages in category "Defunct companies based in New York City" The following 200 pages are in this category, out of approximately 207 total. This list may not reflect recent changes .
The first taxicab company in New York City was the Samuel's Electric Carriage and Wagon Company (E.C.W.C.), which began running 12 electric hansom cabs in July 1897. [41] The company ran until 1898 with up to 62 cabs operating until it was reformed by its financiers to form the Electric Vehicle Company. [42]
[2] [3] Fixed-route buses are dispatched from 28 garages (20 New York City Bus and 8 MTA Bus) and one annex in New York City. Several fleet improvements have been introduced over the system's history. The first large order of air conditioned buses began service in 1966. [4] "
He led the company from revenues of $2.5 million in 1996 to $120 million in 2008. [7] In 2008, Freidman was listed on Crain's New York Business list of "40 Under 40". [7] Taxi Club Management permanently closed in 2018. [10] Freidman managed the taxi fleet of Michael Cohen after Simon Garber purchased the management of most of Cohen's large fleet.
NYC subway riders blindsided by R train closures — but some say alternative is safer than violence-plagued trains: ‘Didn’t even know about it’ Nicole Rosenthal January 6, 2025 at 2:00 PM
On July 30, 2013, an accident occurred at 56th Street and Boulevard East in West New York, New Jersey, in which Angelie Paredes, an 8-month-old North Bergen resident, was killed in her stroller when a full-sized [24] jitney bus belonging to the New York-based Sphinx company toppled a light pole. The driver, Idowu Daramola of Queens, was ...
The NYCTA, a public authority presided over by New York City, was created in 1953 to take over subway, bus, and streetcar operations from the city. [14] In 1968 the state-level MTA took control of the NYCTA, and in 1970 the city entered the New York City fiscal crisis. It closed many elevated subway lines that became too expensive to maintain.