It’s our birthday, too! #OnThisDay in 1976, a group of New York City Transit employees opened the New York City Transit Exhibition, as a part of the United States Bicentennial celebrations. Over fifteen different vintage subway and elevated cars, and a variety of exhibits dedicated to the rich and sprawling history of mass transit in New York were displayed in our beloved Court Street station that had been decommissioned 30 years earlier. The exhibit was only intended to last a few months, but proved to be so popular that its run was continually extended. As we mark our 48th Anniversary, we know it would not have been possible without the support of you – our visitors, who turned a temporary exhibition into the thriving cultural institution we are today. What is your favorite memory made at the #NYTransitMuseum?
Michael Schron
3mo
Favorite memory at the museum, a birthday party I went to in the late '70s (might have even been my own), but favorite memories connected to the museum are always the nostalgia rides, especially the World's Fair 50th anniversary with the original Bluebird and the train of many metals to Coney Island. Plus the BusFests. Happy birthday!
Lynne Lambert
2mo
I have always loved this story as well as the detail that train buffs who were NY Transit employees - after watching many old train cars be scrapped and lost forever - had been hiding these old cars in de-commissioned train tunnels to save them! Bravo, transit employees, your dreams came true. Thank you for this wonderful museum with parts of vintage New York to both see and touch! New York thanks you!
Javan Blackshear
3mo
I remember the Transit Museum being the only museum I wanted to go to growing up, begging my parents to take me there, and feeling miserable when we went there and the museum was closed.
Happy birthday!!!
Hery Susanto
3mo
Happy fourth of july
Congratulations! 🌟
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3moI certainly do remember the two Bicentennial R-46 cars at the museum (1776 & 1976) when I was a kid. I also remember the "Buff Stuff" shop on the mezzanine that sold actual parts from old subway cars, old maps that weren't reprints and lots of other goodies for the enthusiast. Before there was today's Transit Museum Store. Now, if I could just go back in time and visit that shop again, and buy up what was being sold, it would be a gold mine...