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Photo:Courtesy New
York Transit Museum
1976:
New York
Transit Museum Opens
In July 1976, in celebration
of America’s bicentennial, a temporary exhibit on New York City’s
transit system opened in Brooklyn Heights’ historic Court Street
subway station, which had been a shuttle station from 1936 to 1946. It
featured exhibitions and "Nostalgia Train" excursions in vintage
subway cars. The exhibit evolved into the New York Transit Museum, which
is currently the nation’s largest museum devoted to urban public
transportation history. Exhibits include "Steel, Stone and Backbone,"
the story of the city’s 100-year-old subway system, with 18 vintage
subway cars such as Money Car G, built in 1878; Brooklyn elevated wooden
cars; 1939 World’s Fair cars; and a 1950 A train. It also features
interactive displays like "On the Streets," which looks at the
city’s trolleys and buses. The museum’s Gallery Annex in Grand
Central Terminal in Manhattan hosts additional transportation exhibits.
The entrance to the 1976 exhibit is shown here.
-Cynthia
Blair
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