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The New York Transit Museum, one of the city's leading cultural institutions is the largest museum in the United States devoted to urban public transportation history and one of the premier institutions of its kind in the world. The Museum explores the development of the greater New York Metropolitan region through the presentations of exhibitions, tours, educational programs, and workshops dealing with the cultural, social, and technological history of public transportation. Since it's inception over a quarter century ago, the Museum, housed in a historic 1936 IND subway station in Brooklyn Heights, has grown in scope and popularity. As custodian and interpreter of the region's extensive public transportation networks, the Museum strives to share, through its public programs, this rich and vibrant history with local, regional, and international audiences.
The Transit Museum is having a Bus Festival on September 8 - from 10:00 a.m.-3:30 p.m. - at Emily Warren Roebling Plaza in Brooklyn Bridge Park (underneath the Brooklyn Bridge). Admission will be... Read more
By now, I've been to most of the major museums in New York City. But until recently, that list did not include the New York Transit Museum. I'm not sure why it took me so long to check out, but as... Read more
Who'd ever have thought to make a museum out of a subway station? It seems a little surreal that this used to be a real station (Court St) and now it's a showcase for the history of mass transit... Read more
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