NY - Chasidic Jewish Low-Fare Bus Company Serving Midtown

New York City - A few years ago, Sol Wollner, 50, and Mrs. Ungar, 50, both chasidic Jews, opened a low-fare bus company serving Midtown Manhattant.
Each day for six months, Mr. Wollner, who in the beginning worked with Mrs. Ungar and is now the manager of a competing line, said he would leave his home in Williamsburg, Brooklyn, and spend a few hours in Chinatown, "We were watching the Chinatown buses to see what they were doing there, the service they were giving," Mr. Wollner said. At 5 a.m. some days, to late into the evening others, he would chart when buses were leaving full. "I saw what was needed in order to get into this business. Just to jump in, and be another competition, I was not going to do that."
Mrs. Ungar and Mr. Wollner are now engaged in litigation, but regardless of who is really responsible for bringing low-fare buses to Midtown, their respective businesses, Washington DeLuxe and Vamoose, have both played a part in expanding the market. Other, Chinese-owned, companies appear to be taking notice and are joining them in Midtown, with the newest, P2P Circulator, starting a service between Philadelphia's Chinatown and New York's Penn Station last week.
One downer for frequent travelers of Mrs. Ungar and Mr. Wollners co's is no trips Friday evenings or Saturdays: Both Washington DeLuxe and Vamoose schedule their last trip on Friday evenings before the Shabbas begins.