m104
Broadway Line
A 2021 Nova Bus LFS HEV (9854) on the West Harlem-bound M104 in June 2024
Overview
System	MTA Regional Bus Operations
Operator	Manhattan and Bronx Surface Transit Operating Authority
Garage	Manhattanville Depot
Vehicle	Orion VII NG HEV Nova BusLFS HEV New FlyerXcelsior XDE40
Began service	1884-5 (train) 1946 (bus) 2010 (current alignment)
Route
Locale	Manhattan, New York, U.S.
Start	West Harlem –129th Street
Via	Seventh Avenue (southbound) Eighth Avenue (northbound) Broadway
End	Midtown –41st Street /8th Avenue
Length	5.6 miles (9.0 km)[1] (southbound)
Annual patronage	2,081,674 (2024)[2]
Transfers	Yes
Timetable	M104
Route map West Harlem –129th Street M104  Convent Avenue 126th Street Morningside Avenue Old Broadway Tiemann Place LaSalle Street 122nd Street 120th Street 116th Street 114th Street 112th Street Cathedral Parkway 108th Street 106th Street 104th Street 102nd Street 100th Street 97th Street ​​ 94th Street 92nd Street 90th Street 88th Street 86th Street 84th Street 82nd Street 79th Street 75th Street 73rd Street 72nd Street ​​ 70th Street 68th Street 66th Street 63rd Street Columbus Circle ​​​​ 58th Street 56th Street ​​​ 54th Street ​​ 52nd Street 50th Street ​​​​ 49th Street ​ 47th Street 46th Street 44th Street 43rd Street Midtown –41st Street M104  ​​ ​​​​​​​​ Legend Major stops Minor stops  M104  Terminus ​​ Subway connection ← M103  {{{system_nav}}}  M106 →

TheBroadway Line is asurface transit line inManhattan,New York City, running mainly along42nd Street andBroadway fromTimes Square toHarlem. Formerly astreetcar line operated by theThird Avenue Railway, it is now theM104bus route operated byMaBSTOA, a division ofMTA Regional Bus Operations. This bus route no longer runs along the entire route of the former streetcar.

The M104 route begins at 41st Street and 8th Avenue, by Times Square. Buses use Eighth Avenue (northbound) and Seventh Avenue (southbound) to and from Central Park South. The route continues north on Broadway through theUpper West Side, finally turning off at125th Street, where it turns around at a clockwise loop onAmsterdam Avenue,129th Street, Convent Avenue, and 125th Street.

TheForty-second Street, Manhattanville and St. Nicholas Avenue Railway opened theBoulevard Line in 1884 or 1885, following the42nd Street Crosstown Line from theEast 34th Street Ferry alongFirst Avenue (trackage rights over theCentral Park, North and East River Railroad'sEast Belt Line) and 42nd Street toTimes Square, using new trackage on Broadway (then Boulevard) to125th Street, and turning west on 125th Street over the tracks of theOne-Hundred and Twenty-Fifth Street Railroad's125th Street Crosstown Line to theFort Lee Ferry.^[3] TheThird Avenue Railroad acquired control of the line in November 1895,^[4] and theMetropolitan Street Railway leased the Third Avenue in May 1900.^[5]

Effective February 17, 1908, as part of the splitting of the Third Avenue Railroad from thebankrupt Metropolitan Street Railway, the Third Avenue's Broadway cars were sent along their old route, heading east on 42nd Street atTimes Square and ending at theEast 34th Street Ferry viaFirst Avenue. Simultaneously, the Metropolitan introduced a new line,^[6][7] theBroadway and Amsterdam Avenue Line, running from Broadway and Houston Street along Broadway,Seventh Avenue,53rd Street,Ninth Avenue,Columbus Avenue, Broadway, andAmsterdam Avenue to125th Street.^[8] This was done because the Third Avenue's Broadway trackage ended at Times Square; south of Times Square was Metropolitan trackage.

In June 2010, due to budget cuts, the M104 bus route was truncated toTimes Square from theHeadquarters of the United Nations, eliminating service along 42nd Street.^[9]

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