page_title: Bus depots of MTA Regional Bus Operations
section_title: Casey Stengel Depot
hierarchical_section_title: Bus depots of MTA Regional Bus Operations / Queens Division / Casey Stengel Depot
caption_attribution_description: English: Looking at the Casey Stengel Bus Depot south of Roosevelt Avenue in Flushing Meadows / Willets Point, Queens. Looking north from the pedestrian bridge between Flushing Meadows and the Mets – Willets Point subway station.
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 Casey Stengel Depot, formerly the Flushing Depot, is located on the south side of Roosevelt Avenue in Flushing Meadows-Corona Park in Queens, west of 126th Street and east of the New York City Subway's Corona Yard. The depot is named after Casey Stengel, former manager of the New York Yankees and New York Mets, and is across the street from Citi Field, where the Mets play. The original Flushing Depot was inherited from the defunct North Shore Bus Company in 1947. The depot was rebuilt by the city in the late 1940s, re-opening in 1950. This depot suffered from structural problems due to poor soil conditions. In the early 1980s, the NYCTA decided to rebuild the depot, and in 1986 a $2.2 million contract was awarded to Howard, Needles, Tamamen and Bergendoff to design the new depot, which they finished in June 1987. They developed plans for a maintenance building and a transportation building to allow buses to continue using the depot while construction was going on. The $1.3 million contract for the foundation work for the two buildings was awarded to the Pile Foundation Construction Company in April 1987, and the contract $53.5 million contract for the depot's contrution was awarded to Carlin-Atlas Joint Venture in June 1997. This depot was rebuilt again in the 1990s, opening on August 16, 1992. At this time, it was renamed the Casey Stengel Depot. The depot's rebuilding cost $55 million. The depot, which consists of 71,000 square feet (6,600 m²), has 11 bus lifts. This depot houses the buses used on the following routes:
  Local Routes: Q13, Q15, Q15A, Q16, Q17 (shared with Jamaica},Q20A (shared with Queens Village Depot),Q20B,Q26, Q28, Q31 (shared with Queens Village Depot), Q32, Q48, Q76 (shared with Queens Village)
  Articulated Local/SBS Routes: Q12, Q44 SBS
caption: The Casey Stengel Depot in 2018, as seen from the footbridge between the Mets-Willets Point subway and LIRR stations.
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