B48 (New York City bus)

{{short description|Bus route in Brooklyn, New York}} {{Use mdy dates|date=November 2017}} {{Infobox bus line |box_width = 300px |number = {{NYC bus infobox header |title=b48 |color1=local}} |logo =  |logo_width =  |logo_alt =  |subheader = Lorimer Street/Franklin/Classon Avenues |image = File:9503_B48.jpg |image_width = 300px |image_alt = |caption = A 2018 New Flyer XDE40 (9503) on the Lefferts Gardens-bound B48 at Franklin Avenue and Fulton Street |system = MTA Regional Bus Operations |operator = New York City Transit Authority |garage = Grand Avenue Depot |vehicle = New Flyer Xcelsior XD40<br>New Flyer Xcelsior XDE40<br>New Flyer Xcelsior XE40<ref>{{cite web|title=Grand Avenue Depot Bus Roster|url=https://sites.google.com/view/nyctbusroster/home/mta/brooklyn-division/grand-avenue-depot?authuser=0|access-date=14 January 2025}}</ref> |open = November 6, 1884 (streetcar service)<br>December 14, 1947 (bus service) |locale = Brooklyn, New York, U.S. |communities = Greenpoint, Williamsburg, Bedford–Stuyvesant, Crown Heights, Clinton Hill, Prospect Lefferts Gardens |landmarks = Brooklyn Museum of Art, Brooklyn Botanic Garden, Prospect Park |termini =  |start = Prospect Lefferts Gardens – Ocean Avenue and Flatbush Avenue / Prospect Park |via = Classon/Franklin Avenues, Lorimer Street, Nassau Avenue |end = Greenpoint – Meeker Avenue and Gardner Avenue |length = {{convert|6.1|mi|km}} |otherroutes = B43 Graham/Tompkins/Throop Avenues |day = 24 hours<ref name=B48Sched>{{cite NYC bus|B48}}</ref> |timetable_link= [https://new.mta.info/document/7101 B48] |annualpatronage= 680,083 (2024)<ref name=ridership>{{cite web | title=Subway and bus ridership for 2024 | website=mta.info | date=June 10, 2025| url=https://new.mta.info/agency/new-york-city-transit/subway-bus-ridership-2024| access-date=June 11, 2025}}</ref> |transfers = Yes |map_link =  |map = |map_state = collapsed |map_name = |previous_line = B47 |next_line = B49 |notes =  }} The '''B48''' bus route constitutes a public transit line in Brooklyn, New York City, running along Lorimer Street, Franklin Avenue, and Classon Avenue between Flatbush and Greenpoint. Originally the Lorimer Street streetcar line, it is now a bus route operated by MTA New York City Bus.

==Route description== The B48 bus route starts at Lincoln Road and Flatbush Avenue in Prospect Lefferts Gardens, near Prospect Park Station. From there, buses head north on Classon Avenue and south on Franklin Avenue through Crown Heights and Bedford–Stuyvesant to Flushing Avenue. Once it reaches Flushing Avenue, the B48 turns onto Wallabout Street and Flushing Avenue and then heads north on Lorimer Street. From there, buses run along the length of Lorimer Street until Nassau Avenue. The route then shifts onto Nassau Avenue, and heads east on that street until it ends at Meeker Avenue and Stewart Avenue in Greenpoint, near the Newtown Creek.<ref>{{Cite NYC bus map|B}}</ref>

==History== ===Trolley service=== The '''Greenpoint and Lorimer Street Railroad''' was incorporated on November 6, 1884<ref>{{cite news | work = Brooklyn Daily Eagle | location = Brooklyn, New York |title=A New Railroad Enterprise|date = November 6, 1884|page=4}}</ref> to operate along the New Williamsburgh and Flatbush Railroad (Nostrand Avenue Line) from the Broadway Ferry in Williamsburg southeast to Lorimer Street, and then north on Lorimer Street, east on Driggs Avenue, north on Manhattan Avenue, west on Meserole Avenue, north on Franklin Street, and west on Greenpoint Avenue to the Greenpoint Ferry; southbound cars would use Nassau Avenue to Lorimer Street.<ref>{{cite news | work = Brooklyn Daily Eagle | location = Brooklyn, New York |title=The Aldermen|date = December 2, 1884|page=2}}</ref> In addition to the NW&F, this route used the tracks of several other companies: the Brooklyn Crosstown Railroad's Crosstown Line on Driggs Avenue and Manhattan Avenue, the Brooklyn City Rail Road's Greenpoint Line on Franklin Street, and the Bushwick Railroad's Bushwick Avenue Line on Greenpoint Avenue. The franchise was approved on February 26, 1885,<ref>{{cite news | work = Brooklyn Daily Eagle | location = Brooklyn, New York |title=The Aldermen|date = February 27, 1885|page=2}}</ref> and the line was opened by August.<ref>{{cite news | work = Brooklyn Daily Eagle | location = Brooklyn, New York |title=First Accident on a New Street Railroad|date = August 28, 1885|page=4}}</ref> In July 1889 the Brooklyn City Rail Road rerouted all cars but one per day (to preserve the charter) from Meserole Avenue to Greenpoint Avenue.<ref>{{cite news | work = Brooklyn Daily Eagle | location = Brooklyn, New York |author=|title=To Hold Their Charter|date = September 7, 1889|page=1|volume=47|issue=247}}</ref>

Beginning May 30, 1896, the Lorimer Street Line was extended southeast from Prospect Park along the Flatbush Avenue Line and new Bergen Beach Line to Bergen Beach during the summer season.<ref>{{cite news | work = Brooklyn Daily Eagle | location = Brooklyn, New York |title=Better Service to Bergen Beach|date = May 29, 1896|page=2}}</ref><ref>{{cite news | work = Brooklyn Daily Eagle | location = Brooklyn, New York |title=About Financial Brooklyn|date = January 3, 1897|page=25}}</ref>

On October 28, 1945, Lorimer Street cars were extended on both their northern and southern ends to replace discontinued service on the Franklin Avenue Line and on the Nassau Avenue Line. Lorimer Street service was rerouted on its northern end to absorb the Nassau Avenue Line east of Manhattan Avenue, ending at Meeker Avenue and Varick Avenue. On its southern end, service on the Franklin Avenue Line was replaced with Lorimer service rerouted to cut west on the Flushing Avenue Line, south on Franklin Avenue, west on Empire Boulevard, south on Ocean Avenue, and west on Parkside Avenue to Park Circle and Coney Island Avenue.<ref>{{cite web|url=https://www.flickr.com/photos/unionturnpike/28495479496/in/album-72157709433583407/|title=Public Notice Changes in Service Due to Re - routing and Extension of Lorimer Street Line. Effective 5:00 A. M. Sunday, October 28, 1945|publisher=New York City Board of Transportation|date=1945|website=Flickr.com}}</ref>

===Bus service=== Buses replaced streetcars on December 14, 1947, which were then replaced with trolley buses on March 23, 1949.<ref>{{cite web|url=https://www.nycsubway.org/wiki/Brooklyn_Trackless_Trolleys|title=Brooklyn Trackless Trolleys|website=nycsubway.org|access-date=February 14, 2024}}</ref> Buses replaced trolley buses on July 27, 1960, and service was rerouted off Flushing Avenue between Nostrand Avenue and Franklin Avenue and onto Wallabout Street and Franklin Avenue.<ref>{{cite web|title=Public Notice Bus Route B/48–Lorimer Street|publisher=New York City Transit Authority|date=1960|website=Flickr.com|url=https://www.flickr.com/photos/unionturnpike/50065214542/in/album-72157709433583407/}}</ref> The route now runs northbound on Classon Avenue rather than Franklin Avenue; the south end was truncated back to the east side of Prospect Park. From 2010 to 2013, it was further truncated to the Franklin Avenue station in Bedford–Stuyvesant.{{Citation needed|date=February 2024}} On January 6, 2019, the B13, B48, B57 and the B60 buses were moved from the Grand Avenue Depot in Maspeth, Queens to the Fresh Pond Depot in Ridgewood, Queens,<ref>{{Cite web|url=http://www.mta.info/press-release/nyc-transit/mta-new-york-city-transit-implements-bus-service-enhancements-2013|date=January 3, 2013|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20201202195110/http://www.mta.info/press-release/nyc-transit/mta-new-york-city-transit-implements-bus-service-enhancements-2013|archive-date=December 2, 2020|publisher=Metropolitan Transportation Authority|url-status=dead|title=MTA New York City Transit Implements Bus Service Enhancements for 2013}}</ref> but all except the B13 have since moved back to the Grand Avenue Depot on January 19, 2020 (The B60 was moved back to Fresh Pond Depot on June 29, 2025).{{Citation needed|date=February 2024}}

On December 1, 2022, the Metropolitan Transportation Authority released a draft redesign of the Brooklyn bus network.<ref name="Brachfeld 202212">{{cite web | last=Brachfeld | first=Ben | title=Draft plan for new Brooklyn bus network aims to finally end decades of slow, unreliable service | website=amNewYork | date=December 1, 2022 | url=https://www.amny.com/new-york/brooklyn/mta-draft-redesign-brooklyn-bus-network/ | access-date=December 2, 2022}}</ref><ref name="Crain's New York Business 202212">{{cite web | title=Brooklyn bus riders could finally get faster service under MTA redesign | website=Crain's New York Business | date=December 1, 2022 | last=Spivack | first=Caroline | url=https://www.crainsnewyork.com/transportation/brooklyn-bus-riders-could-finally-get-faster-service-under-mta-redesign | access-date=December 2, 2022}}</ref> As part of the redesign, B69 service north of Flushing Avenue would take over the B48's route to Greenpoint, while the B48 would take over the B69's route north of Flushing Avenue.<ref>{{Cite web|title=Draft Plan: B69 Local|url=https://new.mta.info/project/brooklyn-bus-network-redesign/routes/b69-local|access-date=2022-12-05|website=MTA|language=en}}</ref><ref name="Draft Plan: B48 Local">{{Cite web|title=Draft Plan: B48 Local|url=https://new.mta.info/project/brooklyn-bus-network-redesign/routes/b48-local|access-date=2022-12-05|website=MTA|language=en}}</ref> Closely spaced stops would also be eliminated.<ref name="Brachfeld 202212"/><ref name="Crain's New York Business 202212"/> In addition, the B48 would no longer operate overnight.<ref name="Draft Plan: B48 Local"/>

==See also== ===Connecting bus routes=== * {{NYC bus link|B16|B43}} (on Lincoln Road) * {{NYC bus link|B41}} (at Flatbush Avenue) * {{NYC bus link|B45}} (at St. John’s/Sterling Places) * {{NYC bus link|B65}} (at Bergen/Dean Streets) * {{NYC bus link|B49}} (at Atlantic Avenue) * {{NYC bus link|B25}} (at Fulton Street) * {{NYC bus link|B26}} (at Putnam Avenue) * {{NYC bus link|B52}} (at Gates/Greene Avenues) * {{NYC bus link|B38}} (at Lafayette/DeKalb Avenues) * {{NYC bus link|B54}} (at Myrtle Avenue) * {{NYC bus link|B57|B62}} (at Flushing Avenue) * {{NYC bus link|B44 SBS}} (at Bedford/Lee Avenues) * {{NYC bus link|B46}} (at Broadway) * {{NYC bus link|B60}} (at Montrose Avenue/Meserole Street) * {{NYC bus link|Q54|Q59}} (at Grand Street) * {{NYC bus link|B24}} (at Metropolitan Avenue) * {{NYC bus link|B43|B62}} (at Driggs/Nassau Avenues)

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