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New York City Omnibus Corporation was a bus operator in the borough of Manhattan in New York City. It was first organized as a bus subsidiary of New York Railways Corporation to take over that company's routes as they were converted from streetcar to bus operation. It controlled, and ultimately merged into its own operation, two smaller bus companies: Madison Avenue Coach Company, Incorporated and Eighth Avenue Coach Corporation. It also took over most, but not all, of the operations of Green Bus Lines when that company gave up its Manhattan franchises for franchises in Queens.

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  • New York City Omnibus Corporation was a bus operator in the borough of Manhattan in New York City. It was first organized as a bus subsidiary of New York Railways Corporation to take over that company's routes as they were converted from streetcar to bus operation. It controlled, and ultimately merged into its own operation, two smaller bus companies: Madison Avenue Coach Company, Incorporated and Eighth Avenue Coach Corporation. It also took over most, but not all, of the operations of Green Bus Lines when that company gave up its Manhattan franchises for franchises in Queens.
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  • New York City Omnibus Corporation was a bus operator in the borough of Manhattan in New York City. It was first organized as a bus subsidiary of New York Railways Corporation to take over that company's routes as they were converted from streetcar to bus operation. It controlled, and ultimately merged into its own operation, two smaller bus companies: Madison Avenue Coach Company, Incorporated and Eighth Avenue Coach Corporation. It also took over most, but not all, of the operations of Green Bus Lines when that company gave up its Manhattan franchises for franchises in Queens. The company, like Fifth Avenue Coach Co., but unlike other companies, assigned its own route numbers to the routes, numbering north-south lines 1 to 11 and east-west lines 12 to 20. In 1940, it took over the Houston St.-Av. C line from the Triangle Bus Company, giving it the route number 21. In 1956, the company bought out Third Avenue Transit Corporation and had that company sell its bus routes (operated by Third Avenue's subsidiary, Surface Transportation Corporation of New York) to NYCO. It then dissolved Surface Transportation Corp. and created a new subsidiary, Surface Transit, Inc., to run the ex-Third Avenue routes. The company also took over operations of the Fifth Avenue Coach Company, but decided that the Fifth Avenue name was better known, and so adopted the name for the consolidated company of Fifth Avenue Coach Lines. The company's routes were taken over by the Manhattan & Bronx Surface Transit Operating Authority following a transit strike in 1962.
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