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The New York City Department of Plant and Structures was an operator of transit in New York City. In September 1919, Mayor John Francis Hylan charged the department with organizing private entrepreneurs to operate "emergency" buses to replace four abandoned storage battery streetcar lines: the Madison Street Line, Spring and Delancey Streets Line, Avenue C Line, and Sixth Avenue Ferry Line. The system gradually grew, taking over various lines including the Brooklyn and North River Line (trolleys) and Queens Bus Lines (buses), and the DP&S also began operating trolleys in Staten Island to replace the Staten Island Midland Railway's system. Eventually all of these routes were transferred to private management.

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  • The New York City Department of Plant and Structures was an operator of transit in New York City. In September 1919, Mayor John Francis Hylan charged the department with organizing private entrepreneurs to operate "emergency" buses to replace four abandoned storage battery streetcar lines: the Madison Street Line, Spring and Delancey Streets Line, Avenue C Line, and Sixth Avenue Ferry Line. The system gradually grew, taking over various lines including the Brooklyn and North River Line (trolleys) and Queens Bus Lines (buses), and the DP&S also began operating trolleys in Staten Island to replace the Staten Island Midland Railway's system. Eventually all of these routes were transferred to private management.
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  • The New York City Department of Plant and Structures was an operator of transit in New York City. In September 1919, Mayor John Francis Hylan charged the department with organizing private entrepreneurs to operate "emergency" buses to replace four abandoned storage battery streetcar lines: the Madison Street Line, Spring and Delancey Streets Line, Avenue C Line, and Sixth Avenue Ferry Line. The system gradually grew, taking over various lines including the Brooklyn and North River Line (trolleys) and Queens Bus Lines (buses), and the DP&S also began operating trolleys in Staten Island to replace the Staten Island Midland Railway's system. Eventually all of these routes were transferred to private management. Among the DP&S's acquisitions was the Bridge Operating Company, which ran the Williamsburg Bridge Local trolley, in 1921. Unlike the other lines, this one remained city-operated, and was replaced by the B39 bus route on December 5, 1948, by then transferred to the New York City Board of Transportation.
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