Q69 and Q100 buses

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21st Street Buses
A 2009 Orion VII NG HEV Spectrum (4267) on the Q100, and a 2023 XD40 (9274) on the Q69 to Long Island City, both at the Queensboro Plaza subway station
Overview
System	MTA Regional Bus Operations
Operator	MTA Bus Company
Garage	LaGuardia Depot
Vehicle	Orion VII NG HEV New Flyer Xcelsior XD40 Nova Bus LFS
Began service	1933 (Q69) 1980s (Q100)
Route
Locale	Queens, New York, U.S.
Communities served	Queens: Long Island City, Astoria, Steinway, Jackson Heights, East Elmhurst The Bronx (Q100): Rikers Island
Start	Long Island City – Queens Plaza Q69: 28th Street and Queens Plaza South / Queensboro Plaza station Q100: Jackson Avenue and Queens Plaza South / Queens Plaza station
Via	21st Street
End	Q69: Jackson Heights – 82nd Street and Astoria Boulevard Q100: Rikers Island, Bronx
Length	5.4 miles (8.7 km) (Q69) 5.7 miles (9.2 km) (Q100)
Service
Operates	24 hours (Q100)[1] All times except late nights (Q69)[2]
Annual patronage	Q69: 2,260,213 (2023)[3] Q100: 809,431 (2023)[3]
Transfers	Yes
Timetable	Q69 Q100
Route map Jackson Heights – 82nd Street  Q69  Intermittent stops 81st Street 79th Street 78th Street / Grand Central Parkway Intermittent stops 77th–78th Streets 75th–76th Streets 73rd–74th Streets 71st–72nd Streets Rikers Island  Q100  Rikers Island parking lot 19th Avenue 49th–Hazen Streets Intermittent stops 47th Street 45th Street 42nd Street Steinway Street Intermittent stops 36th–37th Streets 35th Street 31st Street ​ Intermittent stops 28th Street 26th–27th Streets 24th–Crescent Streets Q100 via 20th Avenue Q69 via Ditmars Boulevard 21st Street / Ditmars Boulevard Q69 local stops 22nd Drive 23rd Avenue 23rd Drive 24th Avenue Hoyt Avenue North 25th Road Astoria Boulevard 28th Avenue 30th Avenue Q69 local stops 30th Drive 31st Avenue 31st Road Broadway Q69 local stops 33rd Avenue 34th Avenue 35th Avenue 36th Avenue 37th Avenue 38th Avenue 40th Avenue 41st Avenue Queens Plaza North Queens Plaza South 43rd Avenue 44th Drive / 21st Street ​ 22nd Street 23rd Street ​ 24th Street 27th Street (Q100 only) ​​​ Hunter Street Long Island City – Queens Plaza  Q69   Q100  ​​ Legend Local & Limited stops Local stops  Q69  Terminal  LTD  Limited-stop service ​ Subway connection ← Q67 ← Q88  {{{system_nav}}}  Q70 → Q101 →

The Q69 and Q100 Limited bus routes constitute a public transit line in western Queens, New York City. Beginning at Queens Plaza in Long Island City, the routes run primarily along 21st Street through the neighborhoods of Long Island City and Astoria. The Q69 makes all local stops, while the Q100 makes four limited stops along the shared corridor between Queens Plaza and Ditmars Boulevard. At Ditmars Boulevard, the Q69 turns east towards Jackson Heights and East Elmhurst near LaGuardia Airport. The Q100, meanwhile, continues north of Queens across Bowery Bay to the city jail complex on Rikers Island in the Bronx, providing the only public transit service to the island.^[4]

The Q69 (originally the Q19A) was formerly privately operated by the Triboro Coach Corporation, and the Q100 (formerly the Q101R) by the Queens Surface Corporation, under subsidized franchises with the New York City Department of Transportation (NYCDOT). The Q19A itself was a merger of two bus routes, an older Q19A route and the Q51 (originally the Q33A), which were combined into a single route by 1960. The older Q19A was established in the 1920s and ran from the Astoria–Ditmars Boulevard station to Queens Plaza along 21st Street, while the Q51 was established in the late 1930s and ran from the Astoria–Ditmars Boulevard station east to Jackson Heights along Ditmars Boulevard. The Q101R, meanwhile, was created in the 1980s to replace the Q101 service to Rikers Island, and originally ran non-stop between 21st Street–Queensbridge and Rikers Island. From 2005 to 2006, the routes were taken over by MTA Regional Bus Operations under the MTA Bus Company brand, and relabeled to their current designations in 2008. Since then, limited stops were added to the now-Q100 route to improve service along 21st Street.