Fifth and Madison Avenues buses
m1, m2, m3, m4
m1, m2, m4 | |||
|---|---|---|---|
| Fifth and Madison Avenues Line | |||
A 2021 Nova Bus LFS HEV (9741) on the Fort George-bound M3 arriving at the Park Avenue South & 23rd Street stop in December 2023. | |||
| Overview | |||
| System | MTA Regional Bus Operations | ||
| Operator | Manhattan and Bronx Surface Transit Operating Authority | ||
| Garage | Mother Clara Hale Depot (M1) Manhattanville Depot (M2, M3, M4) | ||
| Vehicle | New Flyer Xcelsior XDE40 Nova Bus LFS HEV (except M1) Orion VII NG HEV (except M1) | ||
| Began service | 1832 (trolley) 1886 (bus) 1966 (current alignment) | ||
| Route | |||
| Locale | Manhattan, New York, U.S. | ||
| Start | M1: SoHo – Grand Street M2-M3: East Village – 8th Street M4: Midtown – 5th Avenue-32nd Street | ||
| Via | Madison Avenue (northbound) Fifth Avenue (southbound) 110th Street (except M1) | ||
| End | M1: Harlem – 147th Street M2: Washington Heights – 168th Street M3: Fort George – 193rd Street M4: Fort Tryon Park – The Cloisters | ||
| Length | M1 SB: 7.6 miles (12.2 km) M2 SB: 9.3 miles (15.0 km) M3 SB: 10.6 miles (17.1 km) M4 SB: 9.8 miles (15.8 km) | ||
| Other routes | Q32 (Midtown – Jackson Heights via Roosevelt Avenue) M98 3rd/Lexington Avs/Washington Heights M101 3rd/Lexington/Amsterdam Avs/125th St M102 3rd/Lexington/Lenox Avs M103 3rd/Lexington Avs/Bowery | ||
| Service | |||
| Operates | 24 hours (M2) 4:50 AM- 12:50 AM (M1) 5:40 AM-12:00 AM (M3) 5:35 AM-11:20 PM (M4) | ||
| Ridership | 2,559,859 (M1, 2024) 2,077,144 (M2, 2024) 2,912,505 (M3, 2024) 3,588,431 (M4, 2024) | ||
| Transfers | Yes | ||
| Timetable | M1 M2 M3 M4 | ||
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The M1, M2, M3, and M4 are four local bus routes that operate along the one-way pair of Madison and Fifth Avenues in the borough of Manhattan in New York City between Greenwich Village and Harlem.
The routes are the successors to the New York and Harlem Railroad's Fourth and Madison Avenues Line, which began operations in 1832 as the first street railway in the world, and several lines of the Fifth Avenue Coach Company, a bus operator that started running on Fifth Avenue in 1886.