Fifth Avenue Coach Company

The Fifth Avenue Coach Company was a bus operator in Manhattan, The Bronx, Queens, and Westchester County, New York, providing public transit between 1896 and 1954 after which services were taken over by the New York City Omnibus Corporation.

[1] They introduced a fleet of 15 of their own motorbuses in 1907 that operated along Fifth Avenue and on some crosstown routes.

The same year, they also acquired the Surface Transportation Corporation, and allowed it to operate under a new name as a subsidiary of Fifth Avenue.

After a strike in 1962, and a fight for control with financier Harry Weinberg, bus operations were taken over by the city.

[12] Buses in Westchester survived the strike and city takeover until they were acquired by Liberty Lines Transit in 1969.

A single-deck Fifth Avenue Coach bus operated in the late 1950s, running here in special holiday service in November 2009.