page_title: Bus depots of MTA Regional Bus Operations
section_title: Bergen Street Depot
hierarchical_section_title: Bus depots of MTA Regional Bus Operations / Former depots / Bergen Street Depot
caption_attribution_description: English: Exterior shot of the New York City Transit Sign Shop on Bergen Street between Albany and Troy Avenues roughly within the Crown Heights section of Brooklyn, New York City. The shop was originally the Bergen Street Trolley Coach Depot, a streetcar barn by the Brooklyn, Queens County and Suburban Railroad, then a B&amp;QT bus garage for trolleybuses and diesel buses until July 27, 1960 when all buses were moved to Fresh Pond Depot.
context_page_description: MTA Regional Bus Operations operates local and express buses serving New York City in the United States out of 29 bus depots. These depots are located in all five boroughs of the city, with one located in nearby Yonkers in Westchester County. 21 of these depots serve MTA New York City Transit's bus operations, while the remaining eight serve the MTA Bus Company. These facilities perform regular maintenance, cleaning, and painting of buses, as well as collection of revenue from bus fareboxes. Several of these depots were once car barns for streetcars, while others were built much later and have only served buses. Employees of the depots are represented by local divisions of the Transport Workers Union of America, particularly the TWU Local 100 and 101, or of the Amalgamated Transit Union's Local's 726 for all depots in Staten Island, 1056 for Casey Stengel, Jamaica, and Queens Village Depots, and 1179 for JFK & Far Rockaway Depots.
context_section_description: The Bergen Street Shop is located at 1415 Bergen Street/1504 Dean Street between Albany and Troy Avenues in Crown Heights, Brooklyn (40.675599°N 73.937884°W). The facility is bound by Dean Street at its north end and Bergen Street at its south end. It currently serves as the New York City Transit Sign Shop (also called the Bergen Sign Shop or Bergen Street Sign Shop), producing numerous signs for the Transit Authority, particularly those used in the New York City Subway. It was originally the Bergen Street Trolley Coach Depot, operated as a streetcar barn by the Brooklyn, Queens County and Suburban Railroad, and later under the BRT/BMT system until unification in 1940. It was reconstructed and enlarged under city operations between 1947 and 1948, and reopened on September 16, 1948 as a trolleybus (trolley coach) depot. The depot served the Bergen Street Line (B65), Lorimer Street Line (B48), St. Johns Place Line (B45), Graham Avenue Line and Tompkins Avenue Line (B43), and Flushing Avenue Line (B57). The depot stored 122 trolley coaches, and may have also stored diesel buses. The building was converted into the current sign shop when trolleybus service ended on July 27, 1960, replaced by the Fresh Pond Depot in Queens.
caption: The former Bergen Street Depot, now an MTA Sign Shop.
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