New York Transit Museum *GIVEAWAY Below!* All aboard! Have you visited one of NYC’s most unique museums? Located in a decommissioned subway station, The New York Transit Museum is a NYC gem. Walk down the subway entrance and through the turnstile to find exhibits that highlight the city’s transit system history, including commuter rails, buses, and subways. The star of the museum is the twenty different vintage subway cars dating back to 1907. The cars span an entire block (and YES, you can step

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😍 Here you can step into the subway cars throughout NYC history! In the New York Transit Museum in Downtown Brooklyn, which is open to the public. Curator Jodi Shapiro gives us an inside look. | Urbanist Ariel

🥵 #TodayInHistory: #OnThisDay in 1967, the first successful train of air-conditioned subway cars began service in the #NYCsubway system. The train was composed of ten R38 cars equipped with Stone Safety Air Conditioning systems and ran on the F line. The successful A/C experiment led Mayor John Lindsay to authorize the purchase of 600 more air-conditioned subway cars for the IND and BMT lines. IRT cars would wait until 1975 to receive A/C, due to the technical challenge of creating units small

#TodayInHistory: 🎬 #OnThisDay 51 years ago, the film “The Taking of Pelham One Two Three” opened in theaters. Now heralded as a classic, the 1974 action crime caper flick is the original film by this name. It was also remade in 1998 for TV and as a major motion picture in 2009.“ "The Taking of Pelham One Two Three” includes footage filmed in the decommissioned Court Street Station, now known as the #NYTransitMuseum. The plot centers around a group of men who hijack a subway train, hold its pass