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Posted by The Maven on Tue Mar 13 00:05:46 2007 Does anyone have a full list of the old Metro Apple Express Routes?Thanks In Advance, Trevor |
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Re: Metro Apple Express |
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Posted by The TransitMan on Tue Mar 13 01:02:04 2007, in response to Metro Apple Express, posted by The Maven on Tue Mar 13 00:05:46 2007. Okay. I have the BM15 route:To Manhattan: Ocean Pkwy & Ave Z Ave Z Snell Av 86th St Stillwell Av Bay Ridge Pkwy 3rd Av (Manhattan bound)/66th St to 4th Av (Brooklyn bound) Gowanus Expwy Brooklyn Battery Tunnel West St Battery Pl State St Water St Ends at Water St and Fulton St I hope that helps! |
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Posted by The TransitMan on Tue Mar 13 01:05:56 2007, in response to Re: Metro Apple Express, posted by The TransitMan on Tue Mar 13 01:02:04 2007. LOL! I forgot about the Midtown service!Trinty Pl Church St 6th Av W 59th St Ends at W 59th St between 6th Av and 5th Av Down 5th Av Broadway Battery Pl West st and back to Brooklyn |
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Posted by JAzumah on Tue Mar 13 12:25:29 2007, in response to Metro Apple Express, posted by The Maven on Tue Mar 13 00:05:46 2007. BM10BM11 BM15 BM15 via Water Street |
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Posted by Dan on Tue Mar 13 18:03:35 2007, in response to Re: Metro Apple Express, posted by JAzumah on Tue Mar 13 12:25:29 2007. Wasn't there also a "BM12"? |
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Posted by R4 Bryn Mawr LCL/R5 Paoli EXP on Tue Mar 13 18:56:09 2007, in response to Re: Metro Apple Express, posted by Dan on Tue Mar 13 18:03:35 2007. I heard of it but I didn't see it on the Express Bus Map. |
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Posted by andy on Tue Mar 13 21:03:59 2007, in response to Metro Apple Express, posted by The Maven on Tue Mar 13 00:05:46 2007. What happened to Metro Apple's Brooklyn routes?Wasn't Metro Applie a Red & Tan affiliate? |
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Posted by Andrew Kirschner on Tue Mar 13 22:38:46 2007, in response to Metro Apple Express, posted by The Maven on Tue Mar 13 00:05:46 2007. Whatever happened to the routes...and the company? |
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Posted by BLE-NIMX on Wed Mar 14 00:53:27 2007, in response to Re: Metro Apple Express, posted by JAzumah on Tue Mar 13 12:25:29 2007. 
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Posted by AMoreira81 on Wed Mar 14 07:23:56 2007, in response to Re: Metro Apple Express, posted by BLE-NIMX on Wed Mar 14 00:53:27 2007. WHOA! When did New York Bus Service's downtown routes end then? |
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Posted by Eric B on Wed Mar 14 15:59:49 2007, in response to Re: Metro Apple Express, posted by Andrew Kirschner on Tue Mar 13 22:38:46 2007. The routes were supposedly picked up by some van company, an then you never heard about it again. More recently; when we began discussing the PBL takeover; and I first suggested NYBL come over and pick up the routes to use for the buses it owned; I asked how the routes were doing, and someone told me they are not run at all anymore.So it is just something that fizzed out. The one time I did ride it, there weren't that many people. I think it was related to one of the NJ companies, because there was a bus to Jersey City or somewhere that said Big Apple Express or something like that, and looked nearly identical (I think with some gold on it, and same Flxibles). Not sure if it was connected with Red & Tan, though. |
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Re: Metro Apple Express |
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Posted by Ken S. on Thu Mar 15 14:51:58 2007, in response to Re: Metro Apple Express, posted by Eric B on Wed Mar 14 15:59:49 2007. The NJ company you may be thinking of was called Red Apple Transit and was absorbed into Academy's #22 Hillside operation. It's route ran Hoboken-PABT. If Metro Apple and Red Apple were related Metro Apple might have been the first to become MTAB when #22 decided to stop running its own buses and become a contractor fot NJT. |
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Posted by WayneJay on Fri Mar 16 09:12:38 2007, in response to Re: Metro Apple Express, posted by andy on Tue Mar 13 21:03:59 2007. Could be. I always thought that Metro Apple Express simply purchased some of ex-NJT Transit Flxible new look suburban and one-door transits. |
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Posted by Ken S. on Fri Mar 16 10:30:31 2007, in response to Re: Metro Apple Express, posted by BLE-NIMX on Wed Mar 14 00:53:27 2007. Found this pic of a Metro Apple GM. |
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Posted by Hart Bus on Fri Mar 16 11:50:13 2007, in response to Metro Apple Express, posted by The Maven on Tue Mar 13 00:05:46 2007. IIRC, Metro Apple ran a route as a contract carrier for the NYS Dept of Labor from Court St to the Unemployment office on Main St near the docks. It always had a NYS Dept of labor sign in the lower right of the windshield.Don't know if it was freebie, or you had to show something to get on or the route. |
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Posted by Eric B on Fri Mar 16 12:30:47 2007, in response to Re: Metro Apple Express, posted by Ken S. on Thu Mar 15 14:51:58 2007. Or was that then Metro Apple shut down for good, instead? |
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Posted by Eric B on Fri Mar 16 12:38:14 2007, in response to Re: Metro Apple Express, posted by Hart Bus on Fri Mar 16 11:50:13 2007. That was picked up by Varsity, even before Metro Apple cesed running. It had been a showcase of old non-AC fishbowls (but with the back doors sealed up).I uased that once to go apply for a job, and I think you did have to show something. |
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Posted by Ken S. on Fri Mar 16 12:48:53 2007, in response to Re: Metro Apple Express, posted by Eric B on Fri Mar 16 12:30:47 2007. I think Metro Apple shut down before Academy absorbed Red Apple into #22 Hillside. Of course, if the companies were related would Academy have picked up Metro Apple's routes and used NJT's buses on them or turned the routes over to Command? |
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Posted by Mr. D - TYPE on Fri Mar 16 13:30:41 2007, in response to Re: Metro Apple Express, posted by Eric B on Fri Mar 16 12:38:14 2007. Yes, Varsity did get the labor shuttle and used ex - Command fishbowls with a/c. and even i of the original RTS`S 353 which became Varsity 754. The only non a/c bus was 235 which Green had and then it sat in the yard as it still does today. Several attempts were made at restoring this bus it was never completed. Currently it is poor shape with little or no windows left and the fact that it has not turned a wheel on its own for about 10 years does not help it. |
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Posted by Mr. D - TYPE on Fri Mar 16 13:37:04 2007, in response to Re: Metro Apple Express, posted by Ken S. on Fri Mar 16 12:48:53 2007. Command was all set to get the routes but the entire deal was ended because Command \ Stan Brettschneider wanted mileage money from the end of the routes back to their garage in East New York and the City said no way. Al Manti of Manti transportation already was running the routes with those mini buses of his so they just let him continue to do so. I do not know if he is still operation or not. |
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Posted by QM18Express on Fri Mar 16 14:11:21 2007, in response to Re: Metro Apple Express, posted by Mr. D - TYPE on Fri Mar 16 13:37:04 2007. I know there's a company called Bay Ridge Bus that uses a 35 foot BlueBird in a charter set up. I see it down in Lower Manhattan sometimes going by NY Downtown Hospital with a few people on it. I have seen it once in the afternoon around 4 PM or so heading towards the Battery Tunnel.Maybe I go look for it today for the heck of it! |
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Posted by AMoreira81 on Fri Mar 16 14:25:20 2007, in response to Re: Metro Apple Express, posted by Mr. D - TYPE on Fri Mar 16 13:30:41 2007. It was Varsity 794 that was used. In addition, BIA 0rion 01.508 CNGs 701 and 702 were also used. |
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Posted by RIPTA42HopeTunnel on Fri Mar 16 14:55:21 2007, in response to Re: Metro Apple Express, posted by Mr. D - TYPE on Fri Mar 16 13:30:41 2007. ...and even i of the original RTS`S 353 which became Varsity 754Is it 704? Or is it a different bus? 
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Posted by R4 Bryn Mawr LCL/R5 Paoli EXP on Fri Mar 16 16:31:51 2007, in response to Re: Metro Apple Express, posted by Mr. D - TYPE on Fri Mar 16 13:37:04 2007. Where was Apple's garage? Why couldn't Command acquire it? |
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Posted by Hart Bus on Fri Mar 16 17:31:36 2007, in response to Re: Metro Apple Express, posted by Mr. D - TYPE on Fri Mar 16 13:30:41 2007. Command 235 was in the DOT Yard on both 6/700 & 8/23/00, so its been awhile since any attention was paid to the bus. |
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Posted by Eric B on Sat Mar 17 11:51:44 2007, in response to Re: Metro Apple Express, posted by Mr. D - TYPE on Fri Mar 16 13:30:41 2007. The non-AC buses I was talking about on Metro Apple were not the same as the one Command had. I don't know what they did with those, but in the end, Metro Apple began getting the ex-TA GM Blitz's, and even some RTS's at the very end.Then, the Varsity labor shuttle got those modified school buses. |
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Posted by Eric B on Sat Mar 17 11:56:26 2007, in response to Re: Metro Apple Express, posted by Mr. D - TYPE on Fri Mar 16 13:37:04 2007. Oh, so that was the whole story.From what I heard, the mini bus operations has ceased, but it was too bad, because again, Arrigoni or someone could have picked those up and continued opration os his buses. He could have moved his whole operation over there, as he was already providing the mobile classrooms for the Boro Park area. (Now I'm seeing those mobile vans scattered all around everywhere owned by others, and only half painted over.) |
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Posted by Mr. D - TYPE on Mon Mar 19 07:35:14 2007, in response to Re: Metro Apple Express, posted by RIPTA42HopeTunnel on Fri Mar 16 14:55:21 2007. Originally they numbered it 704 as seen above, but it was changed to 754 before it ever was used in service. Answer I got was that there was another 704 [ fishbowl ] still running and they wanted to distiguish between the fishbowls and the RTS`S and unlike Private Transportation Varsity / Command did not like having 2 buses with the same numbers. |
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Posted by Allen45 on Fri Jun 9 15:04:00 2023, in response to Re: Metro Apple Express, posted by AMoreira81 on Wed Mar 14 07:23:56 2007. I wish I still was able to see whatever image this was, but all of New York Bus Service's Downtown routes ended in 1987. Co-Op City to Downtown service began in 1978 while routes between Parkchester, Pelham Bay, Throgs Neck and Morris Park began in 1985. |
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Posted by Allen45 on Fri Jan 10 15:33:09 2025, in response to Re: Metro Apple Express, posted by Mr. D - TYPE on Fri Mar 16 13:37:04 2007. I know this is necroposting, but I know that there are knowledgeable people here, but if this is true, why couldn't Command Bus use the Metro Apple garage in Sunset Park? Or buy a new facility, let the city help with the upgrades and then they now have a valuable real estate holding in a gentrifying part of Brooklyn. |
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