The Broadway and Seventh Avenue Railroad opened a line from Lower Manhattan to Central Park in 1864. History Streetcar service īond of the Broadway Surface Railroad Company, issued 1. The M2, M3, M4, M5 and M104 are based out of Manhattanville Depot, while the M1 and M7 are based out of Mother Clara Hale Depot and the M55 out of Michael J Quill Depot. When the M5 Limited is running, there is no M5 local service. M5 Limited buses serve all local stops south of 42nd Street, between 72nd and 135th Streets and north of 157th Street. ĭuring the daytime, all M5 buses make limited stops between 135th and 157th Streets, as well as between 72nd and 42nd Streets. At 135th Street, the bus route goes back to Broadway, where it meets the M4 route, and continues up that street until Fort Washington Avenue, where the M4 shifts on that street to head to The Cloisters while the M5 continues up Broadway until the George Washington Bridge Bus Station at 178th Street. This portion is not served by any other bus route.

The route shifts to Riverside Drive, parallel to Broadway and runs the entire length of the street. This Broadway section is shared by the M7 and M104, and 72nd Street is shared by the street's M72 crosstown bus route, as well as the M57. There, the M5 runs crosstown along Central Park South (West 59th Street) and uptown along Broadway from Columbus Circle to West 72nd Street, where it crosses over to the southern terminus of Riverside Drive. This corridor is shared by the M1, M2, M3 and M4 routes, and Sixth Avenue with the M7. The M5 starts at 31st Street between Fifth and Sixth Avenues, using Sixth Avenue northbound and Fifth Avenue southbound until it reaches Central Park South. The northbound M55 runs along Fifth and Sixth Avenues until 44th Street, where it terminates. Downtown M55 buses run along Fifth Avenue to East 8th Street, where the route cuts over to Broadway and terminates at South Ferry. The current northbound M55 route begins at South Ferry and runs uptown on Church Street and Sixth Avenue.

Marks Place after the pedestrian plazas were implemented. The current M5 and M55 follow a similar route, except the M55 does not run on Broadway north of St. An M55 Nova Bus RTS-06 bus at its northern terminal in Midtown.

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