List of Bus Routes in Staten Island - Bus Route History

Ramp "A"

• Original western terminal was Port Ivory (Procter & Gamble Plant on Western Avenue).
• When the Howland Hook Container Port opened (also on Western Avenue), the service was extended to service that facility.
• When the apartment buildings on Holland Ave were built, the end of the line was Holland Avenue & Richmond Terrace, with only certain trips to Howland Hook to accommodate the employees' work schedules.
• A.M. rush hour service was supplemented by service from Andros Ave & Richmond Terrace to the ferry and Park Avenue & Richmond Terrace to the ferry.
• P.M. rush hour service was also supplemented with the same destinations in reverse.
• Western terminus swapped with S107 (now S48), and Port Ivory service discontinued.

Ramp "B"

• R2MB: Lincoln Avenue & Richmond Road, Grant City.
• R2SB: Sand Lane & Seaside (Father Capodanno) Boulevard, South Beach.

• R2MB: Bay Street, Seaside (Father Capodanno) Boulevard, Lincoln Avenue, Midland Avenue.
• R2SB: Bay Street, McClean Avenue, Olympia Boulvard.

• R2MB became the S51.
• R2MB Summer Service - certain trips were terminated & originated @ Midland Beach Bus Loop (Jefferson Avenue & Seaside (Father Capodanno) Boulevard).
• Service from Midnight to 0500 was terminated @ Midland Avenue & Kiswick Street.

• R2SB discontinued. Arrochar segment merged into the S104.

Ramp "C"

• Extended to Grandview & Forest Avenues, Mariners Harbor and later Chelsea.
• The opening of the Teleport, on South Avenue, prompted limited service in conjunction with employee work hours.
• A.M. & P.M. rush hour service was supplemented with additional trips to & from Clove Road & Richmond Terrace to the ferry and Park Avenue & Richmond Terrace to the ferry.

• S59 assumed entire Richmond Avenue service.
• S54 assumed Nelson Avenue and Giffords Lane service (along with R110 service).

Ramp "E"

• Current northern segment of the S52.

Ramp "A"

• Originally a through route and a Grymes Hill shuttle (S6S).
• Through route designated S66,and destination changed to Richmond Terrace & Park Place.
• S6S shuttle re-designated S60.
• Grymes Hill shuttle merged into the S66 in 2010.

• Sunnyside branch (to Seneca Ave & Victory Boulvard) discontinued. Eventually replaced with the S93 in 2001 after the relocation of the College of Staten Island to Willowbrook (which took place in the mid-1990s).
• R7 Special - When the Sunnyside campus of the College of Staten Island first opened, heavy ridership demands were met with scheduled "limited stop" service at ceartain times of the day. The trips originated @ 95th & 4th & went express, along the Staten Island Expressway to Richmond Road, making a stop there & again @ Clove Road then onto the College to coincide with peak class times.

• Discontinued, not renumbered.
• Summer service only.

• Service discontinued in the 1990s.
• Clove Road serviced today by the X14.

Ramp "E"

• Same route, new number.

Ramp "D"

• Rush Hour service to and from Poat Avenue & Jewett Avenue.
• Extended southward to the Staten Island Mall in the early 1980s.

Ramp "E"

• Other Tottenville destination changes - Craig Avenue & Butler Place and Main Street & Amboy Road.
• Alternate destination - Richmond Ave & Hylan Boulvard.
• School Service - To & from Lindberg Avenue & Clawson Street (Old New Dorp High School), Huguenot Avenue & Hylan Boulvard (E. Berstein Intermedaite School, Yetman Avenue & Manhattan Street (Old Tottenville High School), Luten Avenue & Eylandt Street (New Tottenville High School), New Dorp Lane & Mill Road (New-New Dorp High School)
• R103S - SUMMER ONLY- The Great Kills Park Shuttle ran from the park entrance @ Hylan Boulvard to the main parking lot. Discontimued in the late 1980s
• Segment along Richmond Avenue to the Staten Island Mall initiated in the early 1980s.
• Staten Island Mall service rerouted to Bay Ridge, Brooklyn in the 1990s.
• S78 extended to Bricktown Mall in 2011 with the opening of the Charleston Depot, which is behind the mall.

Ramp "E"

• Merged with R5 and Arrochar segment of R2MB.
• Extended to Staten Island Hospital in Midland Beach.

• Rush hour service to & from Ramp "A", St. George Ferry to Port Richmond.
• Later merged with the R111 and re-numbered S111/106 service between Port Richmond and Eltingville, some rush hour ferry service.

• Entire routing became S67 upon renumbering. Discontinued 2010.
• Northern segment (north of Victory Boulevard) became northern segment of extended R111, today's S57.

Ramp "C"

• Grandview & Forest Avenues, Mariners Harbor
• Port Ivory

• Service to Old Place swapped with R1 (now S40).
• Service to Mariners Harbor extended to Holland Avenue & Richmond Terrace, Arlington.

Ramp "B"

Mostly a rush hour service.

• Mostly a rush hour service.
• Short-turn of the R113 (see R113 below).

Ramp "B"

• Discontinued in the early 1990s. S76 rerouted to Vanderbilt Ave; S51 extended to Midland Ave and Richmond Rd.

• School sessions - extra service to & from Brielle Ave & Manor Road
• Extended to Eltingville via Richmondtown and Great Kills portion of R4 to form S54.

• Oakwood destination changed to Ebbits Street & Hylan Boulvard, New Dorp in the 1980s
• Some rush hour service to and from Ramp "A", Staten Island Ferry.
• School Service, to and from Msgr. Farrell High School.
• Predecessor to the S57 was the R111/106 combination
• Service to Staten Island Ferry truncated at Victory Blvd, and extended over the western end of R106 to Port Richmond to form S57.

• Same route, new number.
• Originally a shuttle from St. George to Victory Blvd/Jewett Ave rush hours only, operating between Castleton Corners and Travis other times.
• LIMITED Weekend special service to Willowbrook State School from Ramp "A" St. George Ferry and return to coincide with visitor hours.
• When the College Of Staten Island campus first opened, limited trips to and from the campus entrance.
• Extended the full length of Victory Blvd and S92 implemented early 1990s.

Ramp "B"

• Tottenville destination changed to Main Street & Amboy Road
• Extended to loop Rossville Ave, Woodrow Rd, and Bloomingdale Rd in the early 2000s.
• Service truncated from Tottenville to Bricktown Mall in 2011 with the opening of the Charleston Depot, which is behind the mall.
• R108 was a short-turn of the R113.

• Split into S55 (clockwise) and S56 (counter-clockwise), as a loop service with layover at Tottenville High School.
• Route restructured in the late 1980s to serve the Staten Island Mall; S55 via Annadale Rd; S56 via Foster Rd, Rossville Ave and Arthur Kill Rd.
• S55 extended to Arthur Kill Correctional Facility via Amboy Rd and Bloomingdale Rd in 2007, then cut back to Veterans Rd in 2011 with the closing of the facility.

Ramp "B"

• Rerouted in Clifton via Vanderbilt Avenue and Bay Street.
• In Oakwood, buses no longer travel down Fox Beach Avenue and Tarlton Street due to narrowness of streets.
• New terminal is located @ Delwit Avenue & Mill Road.