New York Bus Service

A former GM Fishbowl bus built in 1982.

#1502, now in the museum fleet of the MTA.

New York Bus Service provided express bus service between Midtown Manhattan and the Bronx from 1970 until MTA Bus Company assumed operations July 1, 2005. The company was founded in the mid-1940s under a different name to provide school bus service. It began operating racetrack services from the Bronx and Upper Manhattan in 1949 (as New York Bus Tours).

With the institution of 1970 OTB legislation (Off Track Betting), the demand for transportation to the race track diminished. New York Bus Service needed to find another niche in the bus transportation sector. Under the leadership of owner Edward Arrigoni, New York Bus Service commenced Parkchester - Manhattan express bus service in 1970. Six more lines were added including a Co-Op City to Wall Street express bus service, later to be done away with.

New York Bus Service designed the standard NYC DOT Private Lines driver badges and discovered ways of reducing rollsign wear.^{[citation needed]} MTA Bus pays New York Bus Service six million dollars annually for use of its property and also made an initial buyout payment of two million dollars for rights to the Bronx express bus lines NYBS operated. MTA Bus has since renamed the garage to Eastchester Depot.^{[citation needed]}

Prior to the MTA Bus takeover, New York Bus Service operated the following routes:

• BxM6 Midtown Manhattan - Parkchester
• BxM7 Midtown Manhattan - Co-op City
• BxM7A Midtown Manhattan - Pelham Bay (now BxM8)
• BxM7B Midtown Manhattan - City Island (since discontinued)
• BxM9 Midtown Manhattan - Throgs Neck
• BxM10 Midtown Manhattan - Morris Park

References

• New York Bus Service at nybus.com (formerly available via the Internet Archive)
• NYCDOT - Privately Operated Bus Service (as of early-to-mid 2000s, accessed January 19, 2007)
• Iona College Honors Edward Arrigonni as an Alumni.
• MTA Bus Newsroom Report
• "City to Buy Private Bus Company For Service in Three Boroughs" The New York Times, April 23, 2005
• National Bus Trader April 1985 Issue