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Thus in the late 1950s the city operated all local service in

Summary: Thus in the late 1950s the city operated all local service in Staten Island and Brooklyn about half the local service in Queens and several routes in Manhattan Several private companies operated buses in Queens and the operated a small Manhattan system but by far the largest system was the which operated almost all Manhattan routes and all Bronx routes plus two into Queens 15 Fifth Avene Jackson Heights and TB Triborough Bridge and one within Queens 16 Elmhurst Crosstown After a in 1962 the city took over operations To avoid legal issues a new agency the MaBSTOA was formed to operate the former Fifth Avenue Coach Lines and Surface Transit Inc routes The final acquisition was in 1980 when MaBSTOA took over the Avenue B and East Broadway s routes using MaBSTOA equipment with Avenue B red route roll signs NYCTA acquired the 13 Grumman Flxibles that had been assigned to Avenue B and placed them in NYCTA service Public takeover of the remaining Queens buses as well as most express routes was implemented in 2005 and 2006 by the new In 2008 the operations of MTA Bus Company NYC Transit and Long Island Bus were all merged into a new regional operation The New York City Bus brand continues to be used

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