Queens Surface Corporation was a bus

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 company in New York City

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, United States

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, operating local service in Queens

Queens

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 and the Bronx

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 and express service between Queens and Manhattan

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 until February 27, 2005, when the MTA Bus Company

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 took over the operations.

Queens Surface Corporation was privately held by the Burke family. The Queens Surface Corporation facility was located at 128-15 28th Avenue (near the New York Times printing plant) in the College Point

College Point, Queens

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 neighborhood of Queens.

Queens-Nassau Transit Lines began operating bus replacements for the New York and Queens Transit Corporation trolleys

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 in 1937, and was renamed Queens Transit Corporation in 1957. Steinway Omnibus (changed to Steinway Transit in 1959) began operating buses over former Steinway Railway lines in the Fall of 1939, and the two companies merged in 1986 to form the Queens/Steinway Transit Corporation. The company was owned by the Salzberg

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 scrap metal

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 interests, which had ripped up the rails, until 1988, when the Linden Bus Company acquired the routes. Shortly thereafter and before operations commenced, Linden Bus Company changed its name to Queens Surface Corporation.

Just prior to MTA Bus takeover, Queens Surface operated the following routes that are now based in College Point Bus Depot.

Queens local

Former Queens Transit Corp's Lines:

• Q25 Jamaica - College Point via Parsons Boulevard
• Q34 Jamaica - Whitestone via Parsons Boulevard
• Q65 College Point - Jamaica, via 164th Street
• Q65A Electchester - Forest Hills, via Jewel Avenue (now Q64)
• Q66 Flushing - Long Island City, via Northern Boulevard
• Q67 Long Island City - Ridgewood, via Borden Avenue
• QBx1 Flushing - Pelham Bay Park, Co-op City, Bronx (now Q50 and Bx23)
• QM2 Midtown Manhattan - Bay Terrace Express, via Cross Island Parkway and Whitestone Expressway, and 6th Avenue or 3rd Avenue
• QM2A Midtown Manhattan - Bay Terrace Express, via Clearview & Willets Point Boulevard, and 6th Avenue (now QM20)
• QM3 Midtown Manhattan - Little Neck Express, via Northern Boulevard, via 6th Avenue
• QM4 Midtown Manhattan - Electchester Express, via Jewel Avenue, via either 6th Avenue or 3rd Avenue

Former Steinway Transit Corp's Lines:

• Q101 East Midtown, Manhattan - Astoria, via Steinway Street
• Q101R Long Island City - Astoria - Rikers Island, Limited stop service (now Q100)
• Q102 Astoria - Roosevelt Island, via 31st Street
• Q103 Astoria - Hunters Point, via Vernon Boulevard
• Q104 Ravenswood - Sunnyside, via Broadway
• QM1 Fresh Meadows-Midtown/Downtown via Union Turnpike, and either 6th Avenue, 3rd Avenue, or Water and Church Streets
• QM1A Glen Oaks-Midtown/Downtown Expressvia Union Turnpike and Horace Harding Expressway (Fresh Meadows during off peak hours), and either 6th Avenue, 3rd Avenue, or Water and Church Streets (now QM5 and QM8)
• QM1A North Shore Towers-Midtown/Downtown Express via Union Turnpike, and either 6th Avenue, 3rd Avenue, or Water and Church Streets (now QM6)

External links

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