Matches in DBpedia 2014 for { ?s ?p New York Bus Service provided express bus service between Midtown Manhattan and the Bronx from 1970 until MTA Bus Company assumed operations on July 1, 2005. The company was founded in the mid-1940s under a different name (Parochial Bus Service) to provide school bus service. It began operating racetrack services from the Bronx and Upper Manhattan in 1949 (as New York Bus Tours).With the institution of 1970 OTB legislation (Off Track Betting), the demand for transportation to the race track diminished. New York Bus Service needed to find another niche in the bus transportation sector. Under the leadership of owner Edward Arrigoni, New York Bus Service commenced Parkchester - Manhattan express bus service in 1970. Six more lines were added including a Co-Op City to Wall Street express bus service, later to be done away with.New York Bus Service also previously operated two local bus routes in 1968 from Co-op City to the East 241 Street - White Plains Road Subway Station via Baychester Av. (Bx71), and from Co-op City to the Dyre Avenue Subway Station (Bx70). Both of these routes were discontinued in 1972 due to low ridership.New York Bus Service designed the standard NYC DOT Private Lines driver badges and discovered ways of reducing rollsign wear.[citation needed]MTA Bus pays New York Bus Service six million dollars annually for use of its property for a period of twenty years with an option to purchase same afterwards, and also made an initial buyout payment of two million dollars for rights to the Bronx express bus lines NYBS operated. MTA Bus has since renamed the garage to Eastchester Depot.[citation needed]. }
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- New_York_Bus_Service abstract "New York Bus Service provided express bus service between Midtown Manhattan and the Bronx from 1970 until MTA Bus Company assumed operations on July 1, 2005. The company was founded in the mid-1940s under a different name (Parochial Bus Service) to provide school bus service. It began operating racetrack services from the Bronx and Upper Manhattan in 1949 (as New York Bus Tours).With the institution of 1970 OTB legislation (Off Track Betting), the demand for transportation to the race track diminished. New York Bus Service needed to find another niche in the bus transportation sector. Under the leadership of owner Edward Arrigoni, New York Bus Service commenced Parkchester - Manhattan express bus service in 1970. Six more lines were added including a Co-Op City to Wall Street express bus service, later to be done away with.New York Bus Service also previously operated two local bus routes in 1968 from Co-op City to the East 241 Street - White Plains Road Subway Station via Baychester Av. (Bx71), and from Co-op City to the Dyre Avenue Subway Station (Bx70). Both of these routes were discontinued in 1972 due to low ridership.New York Bus Service designed the standard NYC DOT Private Lines driver badges and discovered ways of reducing rollsign wear.[citation needed]MTA Bus pays New York Bus Service six million dollars annually for use of its property for a period of twenty years with an option to purchase same afterwards, and also made an initial buyout payment of two million dollars for rights to the Bronx express bus lines NYBS operated. MTA Bus has since renamed the garage to Eastchester Depot.[citation needed]".