opened on September 11, 1972, replacing the 12th Street Depot, and providing indoor storage for over 200 buses previously parked on city streets. It held up to 165 buses. The Hudson Depot was intended to be temporary, but was kept in service when plans to construct new depots failed, and due to the closure of the 54th Street Depot. The depot was closed on September 7, 2003, the same day the 100th Street Depot reopened, and its routes such as the M6, M8, M9, M11, M14A/M14D, M21, M22, M16/M34, and half of the Q32 were transferred to the Michael J. Quill Depot (except the M11, which was transferred to Manhattanville, and later some M11 runs were shared with Michael J. Quill Depot in an effort to ease the severe overcrowding at Manhattanville Depot, where many of their buses are stored on the local streets during nighttime hours). Walnut Depot The Walnut Depot or Walnut Avenue Depot was located on the south side of 132nd Street at Walnut Avenue east of the Hell Gate Bridge in Port Morris, Bronx, on the coastline of the East River and the mouth of the Bronx Kill (). The address was 900 East 132nd Street. NYCTA bought the former warehouse from the F. W. Woolworth Company for $1.8 million in 1979, and rebuilt it into an operating bus depot, and opened it to buses on April 3, 1983, replacing the old and dilapidated West Farms Depot which was closed on the same date, and also to relieve overcrowding at the existing Coliseum and Kingsbridge Depots. On February 21, 1993, the Walnut depot closed for rehabilation and was replaced by the current Kingsbridge Depot which reopened that same day after undergoing reconstruction. Walnut reopened in 1995 and replaced the Coliseum Depot, which by then closed for rehabilitation as well. The depot was planned to be closed around 2000, but was abruptly sold in early 1998 to the Empire State Development Corporation and later the Galesi Group for the construction of a new printing plant for the New York Post. Walnut Depot permanently closed in spring 1998, replaced by the Michael J. Quill Depot. At the time of its closure, it housed 220 buses, and operated the following Bronx routes: Bx4, Bx5, Bx6, Bx11, Bx13, Bx15, Bx17, Bx19, Bx21, Bx27, Bx32, Bx35, and Bx36. The depot was demolished in order to construct the Post printing plant. West