 The street is no longer used by buses, which now use 59th Street to make the crosstown connection.The tracks in 53rd Street were added in 1894, when the Broadway and Columbus Avenue Line, a cable car line, opened.However, the Metropolitan had a lease on the Central Park, North and East River Railroad, the owner of the 59th Street Crosstown Line, and used 59th Street as a connection in the Sixth and Amsterdam Avenues Line.