Q110 (New York City bus)

### **Start**

Jamaica – 88th Avenue and Parsons Boulevard / Parsons Boulevard station (E, F, <F>)
**Rush hours:** Jamaica – 179th Street and Hillside Avenue / Jamaica–179th Street station (E, F, <F>)

### **End**

Elmont, Nassau County – UBS Arena/Belmont Park (race days)
Queens Village – Hempstead Avenue and 225th Street (other times)

The **Q110** constitutes a bus route in Queens and Nassau County, New York running primarily on Jamaica Avenue and Hempstead Avenue between Jamaica and Queens Village, or UBS Arena/Belmont Park in Elmont, Nassau County during race days.

The bus route was previously a streetcar line known as the Jamaica Avenue-Hempstead Turnpike line, and was operated by Jamaica Buses until MTA takeover in 2006.

## Route description

The Q110 begins at 88th Avenue and Parsons Boulevard, near the Parsons Boulevard station on the IND Queens Boulevard Line, and uses Parsons Boulevard to access Jamaica Avenue, while buses heading to the terminus use 153rd Street and 88th Avenue. Buses continues on Jamaica Avenue until they go on Hempstead Avenue, which they continues on until they end at 225th Street. On racing days, the bus route is extended to UBS Arena/Belmont Park, along Hempstead Avenue.

During rush hours, the bus route instead starts at 179th Place and Hillside Avenue, near the Jamaica-179th Street station on the IND Queens Boulevard Line, and uses Hillside Avenue and 187th Place to access Jamaica Avenue, while buses heading to the terminus use 179th Place.

## History

### As a streetcar line

The streetcar line was originally operated by the Long Island Electric Railway (LIER), which was incorporated in 1894. On October 11 of that year, the company applied for a line between the then-Long Island towns of Jamaica, Hempstead, and Far Rockaway.

On October 11 of that year, the company applied for a line between the then-Long Island towns of Jamaica, Hempstead, and Far Rockaway. Construction of the line began in 1895 along with the company's streetcar line along Liberty Avenue. The line began operation on 1896.

### Decline and conversion to buses

Around this time, many streetcar lines in Queens and the rest of the city began to be replaced by buses, particularly after the unification of city's three primary transit companies in June 1940. On April 21, 1931, Jamaica Central created a subsidiary known as Jamaica Buses, Inc. to convert its trolley lines to bus franchises. On November 25, 1933, the full route began operations as a bus line. The original terminus was 168th Street station, which was the former terminus of the r surface line.

Around 1960, Route A was renamed the Q110.

### MTA takeover

On January 30, 2006, the MTA Bus Company took over operations of the Jamaica Bus routes. On May 2, 2007, the Q110 started serving the racetrack on racing days.

In December 2019, the MTA released a draft redesign of the Queens bus network. As part of the redesign, the Q110 would be replaced with the QT67, a "neighborhood" route. The redesign was delayed due to the COVID-19 pandemic in New York City in 2020,and the original draft plan was dropped due to negative feedback. A revised plan was released in March 2022. As part of the new plan, the Q110 would be discontinued and be replaced with the Q57.