Eighth Avenue Line (Manhattan surface)

The Eighth Avenue Line is a public transit line in Manhattan, New York City, United States, running mostly along Eighth Avenue from Lower Manhattan to Harlem. Originally a streetcar line, it is now the M10 bus route, operated by the New York City Transit Authority. The M10 bus now only runs north of 31st Street (at Penn Station), and runs southbound on Seventh Avenue and Broadway (the old Seventh Avenue Line) rather than Eighth Avenue south of 63rd Street.

History

The Eighth Avenue Railroad opened the line from the north end of the trackage shared with the Sixth Avenue Railroad's Sixth Avenue Line at Canal Street and Varick Street along Canal Street, Hudson Street, and Eighth Avenue to 51st Street on August 30, 1852. [New York Times, [http://select.nytimes.com/gst/abstract.html?res=FB0917FF3955147B93C2AA1783D85F468584F9 Eighth-Avenue Railroad] , August 30, 1852] It was eventually extended north to 159th Street, with a branch along Macomb's Lane to 154th Street, and another branch to the south along Canal Street east to Broadway. Buses were substituted for streetcars by the Eighth Avenue Coach Corporation in March 1936. The New York City Omnibus Corporation took over operations in 1951, and in 1956 it was renamed Fifth Avenue Coach Lines; the Manhattan and Bronx Surface Transit Operating Authority replaced it in 1962.

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