Bus depots of MTA Regional Bus Operations

[8][11][14] From 1947 to 1950, the BOT reconstructed numerous depots and trolley barns inherited from the private operators, and erected or purchased new facilities to expand capacity.

[39] The facility includes paint booths for MTA buses, and was designed to maintain compressed natural gas (CNG) equipment.

[4] The facility underwent further renovations in the 2010s, replacing the maintenance building's roof and improving ventilation and pollution controls including containment of fuel spills.

The current facility opened on February 23, 1993,[5] and consists of two separate buildings: one for maintenance (the Ninth Avenue Shop)[28][29][31] and one for bus storage.

[81][83] It was acquired by the Third Avenue Railway in April 1946, and was converted into a bus depot and repair shop for the successor Surface Transportation Corporation around 1950.

[86] Surface Transit was taken over by New York City Omnibus Corporation in 1956, and the depot became municipally operated when its parent company Fifth Avenue Coach folded in 1962.

[41][90] It is currently owned by New York City and leased to MTA Bus Company,[3][27][90] sold by Liberty Lines on January 3, 2005, for $10.5 million.

[4][43][89][94] The depot consists of an administration building, a shop for bus maintenance and repairs, and an outdoor parking lot used for storing 80 express buses.

[116][117][118][119][120] In addition to repair shops,[116] the barn hosted a "trolley car school" where new motormen were trained using a mockup of a streetcar's driver cabin.

In June 1959, a contract was awarded to rebuild the BMT Myrtle Avenue Line to provide adequate clearance for the passage of buses underneath to the depot.

[132][131][133][134] The building meets the needs of expanding demands, and relief of the overcrowding at the Brooklyn Division's other six existing bus garages, and upgrading the Department of Buses' facilities to be state-of-the-art from both environmental and technological standpoints.

[5] In 1959, the depot was equipped with heaters to circulate hot water through the heating and cooling systems of buses that had to be stored outside due to the lack of storage space.

[82] In November 1995, the NYCTA installed a fueling station (leased from Brooklyn Union) at the cost of $1.6 million for several Transportation Manufacturing Corporation (TMC) RTS-06 CNG buses and a fleet of BIA Orion 5.501 CNGs.

[154] Ulmer Park is notable for rebuilding, repairing, and housing NYCT Bus 2185, a MCI express coach which was badly damaged during the September 11 attacks in 2001.

A new garage was built on the site after demolition, designed as a "green depot" with solar panels and features for energy conservation and efficiency.

[24][26][200] The brick facility was opened in 1966 and was operated by Jamaica Buses; the company's original depot was located across the street (114-02 Guy R. Brewer Boulevard) before the land was acquired by New York State in 1958.

Following damage from Hurricane Sandy, the facility was closed between October 2012 and February 2013, with its fleet housed at Building 78 on the grounds of John F. Kennedy International Airport two blocks away from the JFK Depot.

The depot lies between Merrick Boulevard to the east and 165th Street to the west, and spans about three blocks north-to-south between Tuskegee Airmen Way (South Road) and 107th Avenue, located across from the campus of York College.

[3][36][224] Due to its age and capacity issues and to accommodate articulated buses, the MTA plans to demolish the existing structure and build a new and expanded depot on the same site, as well as on 50,000 square feet of adjacent property purchased in April 2014.

[148][149][233] It was later used in the early 1990s to fuel an NYCT demonstration bus from the Casey Stengel Depot[82] and three new Triboro-operated RTS buses fitted with special Detroit Diesel Series 92 engines.

The contract for the command center was awarded in November 1997, with the intent of creating a central control room for the New York City Subway that would implement automation of the system, including automatic train protection.

[305] The use of non-union labor by the construction contractor led to a protest by thousands of union members at the site and at the MTA's midtown headquarters in June 1998.

[309] A former trolley yard, the site was opened as a Central Bronx bus depot in 1947 by Surface Transit Inc., the successor to the streetcars of the Third Avenue Railway.

[5][310] It would later be used by the New York City Omnibus Corporation until 1962, when it would be taken over by the Transit Authority (as opposed to its MaBSTOA subsidiary) when its parent company Fifth Avenue Coach folded.

[20] Two outdoor annexes are located near the depot, one across of Second Avenue, and one two blocks north on East 128th Street, adjacent to Harlem River Park.

[325][326][327][328] It was originally the Bergen Street Trolley Coach Depot, operated as a streetcar barn by the Brooklyn, Queens County and Suburban Railroad,[329] and later under the BRT/BMT system until unification in 1940.

[119] The building was converted into the current sign shop when trolleybus service ended on July 27, 1960, replaced by the Fresh Pond Depot in Queens.

[291][371][372][373] In December 1971,[291] the New York City Transit Authority took possession of the vacant building, and upgraded it to facilitate bus fueling and storage.

[5] The depot was planned to be closed around 2000, but was abruptly sold in early 1998 to the Empire State Development Corporation and later the Galesi Group for the construction of a new printing plant for the New York Post.

[382] The West Farms Depot was located at 1857 Boston Road, just north of the 174th Street subway station in the Crotona Park East section of the Bronx (40°50′19″N 73°53′11″W / 40.838570°N 73.886526°W / 40.838570; -73.886526 (1810 Southern Boulevard)).