Concord Coach to resume daily bus service to New York City

Concord Coach Lines is about to resume the direct service between Concord and New York City that ended when COVID hit.

Beginning May 22, the company will resume the service with one stop in Nashua. It will run four days a week (Thursdays, Fridays, Sundays, and Mondays) and offer one round trip from New Hampshire to mid-town Manhattan, on East 42nd Street between 1st and 2nd avenues. 

The service starts shortly before JetBlue begins offering daily flights to New York’s JFK airport, on June 12.   

Concord Coach Lines service will leave the Concord Transportation Center on Stickney Avenue at 6:30 a.m., stop at Nashua’s Exit 8 Park & Ride lot at 7:15 a.m. and have a noon arrival in New York. The return trip will leave at 2:00 p.m. and arrive in Concord at 7:30 p.m.

The coaches will seat 30 passengers, compared to 51 seats on motor coaches used for service to Boston, with two seats on one side of the aisle but only one seat on the other. The back of the bus offers a self-service gallery that includes a single-serve coffee maker and complimentary snacks and beverages.

Tickets for the service are reservation-based, so trips need to be pre-booked and used at the specific time and date for which they were purchased. An introductory fare of $69 one way from Concord or Nashua is on sale now at www.concordcoachlines.com or at 1-800-639-9090.