Work to modify this depot to accommodate articulated buses was completed in the 2010s, with the Q53 converted to articulated buses as of January 2017, and the Q70 being converted to articulated buses in June 2020. Fleet OBI Orion VII OG HEV OBI Orion VII NG HEV New Flyer XD40 New Flyer XD60 MCI D4500CL Prevost X3-45 Routes This depot houses the following bus routes. Many of these used to be Triboro Routes. Several had been Queens Surface Corporation routes that operate in western Queens, which were closer to the LaGuardia Depot than their former Queens Surface Depot in College Point. Local Routes: Articulated SBS Routes: Express Routes: Queens Village Depot The Queens Village Depot is located on 97-11 222nd Street between 97th and 99th Avenues in Queens Village (), across to the west from Belmont Park. The MTA began acquiring land for the depot in 1968. The depot was opened on September 8, 1974, and it is on the site of what was Dugan's Bakery. Upon opening, the depot received many former North Shore Bus Company routes from the existing Casey Stengel and Jamaica Depots, and relieved overcrowding at those depots. In 1979, the buses from the depot tested a radio-based real-time information system called the "Radio-Data-Locator System", precursor to MTA Bus Time. The depot was renovated in 1987. The depot stores around 250 buses. It has of space. The Queens Village Depot building won an Award Honor for engineering excellence from the New York Association of Consulting Engineers. Fleet OBI Orion VII NG HEV Nova Bus LFS LF40102 MCI D4500CT Routes Local Routes: Express Routes: Staten Island Division All Staten Island division bus depots are the members of Amalgamated Transit Union Local 726 of Staten Island, New York and are all operated by New York City Transit. Note; Buses in the Staten Island Division may be swapped between depots on an as-needed basis, and are not reflected in the route assignments as these are short-term loans to cover services at these depots. Castleton Depot Castleton Depot, also called Castleton Avenue Depot, is located on 1390 Castleton Avenue and fills the block bounded by Jewett Avenue, Hurst Street, Castleton Avenue, and Rector Street in Port Richmond (). A large parking lot on the east side of Rector Street is also used for bus storage. The depot was constructed in the late 1940s to provide urgently needed storage space for