Fifth Avenue Transportation Company

Defunct transportation company in New York City

Fifth Avenue Transportation Company
A Fifth Avenue Transportation Company omnibus to Central Park
Industry	Transportation
Founded	1885; 139 years ago (1885) in New York City, United States
Defunct	1896 (1896)
Fate	Declared for bankruptcy
Successor	Fifth Avenue Coach Company
Key people	Elliott Fitch Shepard (controlling stockholder from 1888 to 1893)

The Fifth Avenue Transportation Company was a transportation company based in New York which was founded in 1885 and operated of horse-and-omninbus transit along Fifth Avenue, with a route running from 89th Street to Bleecker Street using horse-drawn omnibuses. Fifth Avenue was unusual in that its residents opposed the installation of railway track for streetcars and was the only avenue in Manhattan to never see streetcar service.^[1]^[2] The company was declared bankrupt of the earlier operator in 1896, and was succeeded by the Fifth Avenue Coach Company^[3]

From 1888 until his death in 1893, lawyer Elliott Fitch Shepard was the company's controlling stockholder. He acted on his religious beliefs of the holiness of the Christian Sabbath, forcing the company to halt its operations on Sunday, the Sabbath.^[4]^[5]

References

^ "GSAPP Historic Preservation Studio 2005-2006". Archived from the original on July 5, 2007. Retrieved December 20, 2008.
^ "Guide to the Fifth Avenue Coach Company Collection, 1895-1962 - Fifth Avenue Coach Company Collection". New York Historical Society. Retrieved December 20, 2008.
^ Brennan, Joe. "Local Bus Companies of Manhattan". NYCSubway.org. Archived from the original on May 24, 2011. Retrieved December 20, 2008.
^ The Illustrated American. Vol. 13. Chicago, Illinois: The Illustrated American Publishing Company. April 8, 1893. p. 427.
^ Gray, Christopher (October 24, 2014). "Refined in an Era of Superlatives". The New York Times. Retrieved July 14, 2015.

Greater New York region bus transit

Transportation in New York City

Operators

New York	Public MTA Regional Bus Clarkstown Dutchess Long Beach Huntington Nassau Putnam Roosevelt Island Suffolk Rockland Hudson Link Orange Ulster Westchester Private Academy Coach USA Community Olympia Rockland Short Line Suburban Columbia Hampton Jitney Hampton Luxury Liner Hudson Rail Link Liberty Monsey Trailways Spanish
New Jersey / Pennsylvania	Public NJ Transit Bus Monroe Hunterdon Private Academy Coach USA Community Olympia Rockland Short Line Suburban Greyhound Klein Lakeland Martz OurBus Rutgers Spanish Princeton Trans-Bridge
Connecticut	Public CT Transit Stamford New Haven Waterbury Bridgeport Housatonic Milford Northeast Northwest Norwalk River Valley Southeast Private Peter Pan

Routes

New York	Bronx Brooklyn Manhattan Queens Staten Island Express within NYC Dutchess Nassau Putnam Rockland Suffolk Ulster Westchester Columbia Transportation
New Jersey	Bergen / Passaic Essex / Hudson / Union Mercer Middlesex / Monmouth / Morris North Jersey to NYC Special event and park-ride Suburban
Connecticut	Bridgeport Danbury New Haven Norwalk Stamford
Pennsylvania	Monroe

Defunct
operators

New York	Atlantic Express Caravan Transit Poughkeepsie Varsity & Command Fifth Avenue Coach (earlier 5th Ave Transportation) Green Jamaica Liberty Madison Avenue Long Island New York Bus New York City Omnibus New York Transportation North Shore Queens Surface Soundview Steinway Surface Triboro Z & M
New Jersey / Pennsylvania	A&C Bieber DeCamp PABCO Public Service / Transport of New Jersey

Transit
centers

New York City	165th Street Coney Island–Stillwell Avenue Eltingville Fordham Plaza George Washington Bridge Jamaica Center Port Authority Ridgewood Intermodal St. George Victor A. Moore Williamsburg Bridge Plaza
Long Island	Long Beach Mineola Intermodal Rosa Parks Hempstead
Hudson Valley	New Rochelle Mount Vernon-Petrillo Plaza White Plains Yonkers Spring Valley
New Jersey	Broadway (Paterson) Exchange Place Hackensack Hoboken Terminal Irvington Journal Square Lakewood Newark Passaic Red Bank Ridgewood Weehawken