UPPER EAST SIDE — The Hampton Jitney is continuing to pick up customers at an East 86th Street stop without authorization from the city.
The bus company released a new list of Manhattan stops for its Long Island-bound route last week, which included a couple of new permanent ones, including one on Lexington Avenue between East 85th and East 86th streets — a pickup point that was only authorized to be a temporary one.
The temporary permit for that stop expired in September 2015, according to a spokesman for the Department of Transportation.
The Hampton Jitney did not immediately respond to requests for comment on Monday.
The temporary stop at 86th Street was created after DOT banned left turns onto Lexington Avenue from 86th Street in April 2015, which made it difficult for the Jitney buses to get from their former spot on East 86th Street to Lexington Avenue to finish its pickup route, according to the Hampton Jitney.
The Jitney requested the stop so its buses would have a straight shot down the street, rather than weaving across the Upper East Side to pick up its passengers, the company's president Geoff Lynch said last summer when the temporary stop was implemented.
The company initially told community boards 8 and 11 that it intended to create two permanent stops, at East 96th and East 77th streets, to ease overcrowding at the temporary one. Those stops were authorized by the DOT.
Hampton Jitney never presented any intention to make the Lexington Avenue a permanent one, according to Scott Falk, co-chairman of CB8's transportation committee. But there is currently an application to get a permanent permit for that location with the DOT, and it is under review, according to a spokesman for the DOT.
"The Hampton Jitney should obey all DOT rules as should all common carriers," CB8's chairman Jim Clynes said.
The DOT said it will continue to work with all parties to determine whether a stop on the East 80s area is feasible and referred DNAinfo to the NYPD for questions regarding enforcement.
The NYPD did not immediately return a request for comment.
