Just curious: Which bus hubs by borough would you say are served by the most and the least number of buses?

(Maybe in Manhattan bus hubs would be South Ferry and GWB Bus Station and in The Bronx would be The Hub and the subway terminals; Maybe more hubs in Brooklyn, Queens and Staten Island)

Queens: Roosevelt Ave., Queens Plaza, Woodhaven Blvd., LGA and JFK Airports, Flushing, Jamaica. Out of these, I would have to say that Flushing is the busiest, with Jamaica as a close second.

In Brooklyn-Cadman Plaza, Coney Island station, Broadway Junction

Bronx: 3rd Avenue, Pelham Bay, Bay Plaza, Bedford Park Blvd, West Farms Sq

Also Williamsburg Bridge Plaza and Kings Plaza Mall - Brooklyn

St. George Ferry Terminal - Staten Island

I know the ones in Queens are:
Jamaica RR
Parsons-Archer
165 St Terminal
Flushing-Main St
Ridgewood

Central Jamaica as a whole ie Parsons and Archer needs an expanded Bus hub badly.

Ditto for Downtown Brooklyn as well.

Does Pelham Bay Park count as a bus hub? Some routes terminate there while others only stop there.

Sure it could.

The term "hub" in general means {the center}/{central} of something....
Whether buses terminate at a hub or not, doesn't make it any less of one, or none at all....

I'd consider PBP as a hub, but not a major transfer point... Some people'll tell you it's the same thing... I say it's a slight difference....
(e/g... Roosevelt Field isn't really a hub - it's more of a major xfer point... Jamaica & Flushing are Hubs...)...

it's just that, Jamaica & Flushing are MUCH bigger hubs than Pelham Bay Park is....

Pelham Bay Park is a hub for the area. It's nowhere near to the extent of Jamaica and Flushing, like B35 said, but it's where several buses radiate to the East Bronx. When buses radiate from a central point, that makes it a hub.

I'm goin off the top of my head here...

Brooklyn:
Most - Downtown Brooklyn in general
Least - Rockaway Pkwy (by the L train station)

The Bronx:
Most - Fordham Plaza or Westchester Sq.
Least - Bedford Park (around the 4 train station).. either that, or PBP...

Manhattan:
Most - PABT, if you're counting the NJ routes as well
Least - 125th st Itself

Queens:
Most - Jamaica, in general
Least - Woodhaven/QB (for all those ppl. that wait there for the Qll/21/53/38 & the 29, if I remember correctly, you'd think there'd be more routes there than what it currently is....

Staten Island
Most - St. George
Least - Eltingville? (only 2 hubs I can think of out on SI)

Thanks.. few things though....

Union Tpke/QB & Pt. Richmond I don't consider hubs...

If it's only nyc bus routes he's asking about, then yeh, GWB would probably be amongst the most in Manhattan... I don't know if I'd consider Penn Station & GCT, bus hubs exactly, that's why I didn't list them....

Again, how do you differentiate between a hub and a transfer point? Is it the sheer number of routes, or some other intangible factor (ie what's the difference between Kew Gardens and Jamaica)?

ehh, I don't think this is somethin that's that difficult to understand...

think of a hub on a bicycle wheel... you notice how the spokes (and how many of them) all originate from the middle of the bicycle tire, and pan out in different directions on the opposing end of the hub.... well it's the same idea, dude....

Jamaica (respective to the ENTIRE borough of Queens) is a bus hub b/c you have a bevy of routes panning in different directions out of Jamaica... if you ever heard the term "feeder", in regards to bus routes, bus hubs are usually synonymous w/ a feeder system.... don't know if that helps you understand or not...

places like RFM are major xfer points solely b/c the Numbers of passengers that disembark there, that are looking to xfer to another bus... note, just b/c a bunch of routes all serve one spot doesn't necessarily make it a bus hub....
Most of the major xfer points in NYC doesn't solely involve buses, but bus-to-subway travel, subway-to-bus travel, and subway-to-commuter rail travel.....

yes, there are intangibles... a lot of which has to do w/ the intentions of the passenger(s)...

Thank you for the replies.

When I posed this question, I was thinking of hubs served by NYCTA and MTA bus routes in the five boroughs.

In keeping with my question, the only two "hubs" I can think of in Manhattan might be South Ferry and GWB Bus Station; in The Bronx might be The Hub and maybe the subway terminals(?).

Some in Brooklyn, Queens and Staten Island I would consider "hubs" are Williamsburgh Bridge Bus Plaza, 165th Street Bus Terminal, Saint George, DUMBO, L.I.C. (Queens Plaza? Queensborough Plaza?), Flushing (Main Street), Jamaica (subway terminals - particularly 179th Street?), La Guardia and J.F.K.

Am I off-target in my thinking?

I would consider a hub to be, in terms of local transit in the city, any terminal location where there are:

1. A commercialized (retail or otherwise) area
2. Subway or commuter rail connections
3. Division point (multi-depot layover location) for bus services

There are different ways of interpreting it, and in the way NYCT and MTAB have shaped their surface route networks, you can make a case that Astor Place/Cooper Union is as much a hub as Kings Plaza in Brooklyn...

Well Penn Station as far as buses go have the M4, 6, 7, 10, 16, 20, 34 and Q32 buses and it's mostly train (a la 71-Continental) so I see why you wouldn't consider it a hub. Grand Central has the M1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 42, 101, 102, 103, 104, but like the aformentioned statement, it's a train hub

co-op city in the bronx,staten island mall,bay ridge in brooklyn

Is Bay Ridge really a hub?

None of the ones Apple2Apple listed are....

o i really thought co -op city was 1

I was going to say Co-op city,but I didn't know that will be correct even though alot of bus route go through there from different places.

The only buses that serve Co-Op are the Bx25, 26, 28, 29, 30, BxM7 and QBx1

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