{"id":322064,"date":"2026-08-15T13:51:07","date_gmt":"2026-08-15T13:51:07","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/322064\/"},"modified":"2026-08-15T13:51:07","modified_gmt":"2026-08-15T13:51:07","slug":"vintage-buses-roll-into-brooklyn-for-annual-festival","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/322064\/","title":{"rendered":"Vintage Buses Roll Into Brooklyn For Annual Festival"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Because replacement parts for decades-old buses are not always readily available, keeping them running can require expertise and resourcefulness. <\/p>\n<p>&#8220;Preparing a historic bus for the annual Bus Festival is truly a year-round labor of love,&#8221; Newburg said. &#8220;It takes an enormous team effort to bring the fleet together for a single day.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>The festival will also feature several notable additions this year, including Bus 303, which will make its first-ever appearance. <\/p>\n<p>Built in 1918, the wooden-bodied, open-top double-decker once operated on Manhattan routes for the Fifth Avenue Coach Company. <\/p>\n<p>Following its restoration this year, it is now the oldest restored vehicle in the Museum\u2019s vintage bus fleet and will be displayed alongside \u201cBetsy,\u201d the iconic 1931 double-decker it replaced as the oldest vehicle in the collection.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Because replacement parts for decades-old buses are not always readily available, keeping them running can require expertise and&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":322065,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[39],"tags":[9,24,63,134,136,135],"class_list":["post-322064","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-staten-island","tag-new-york","tag-new-york-city","tag-nyc","tag-staten-island","tag-staten-island-headlines","tag-staten-island-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/322064","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=322064"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/322064\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/322065"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=322064"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=322064"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=322064"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}