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NEW YORK TRANSIT MUSEUM

DISCOVER THE STORIES THAT MOVE NEW YORK

From our 1936 subway station in Brooklyn to Grand Central Terminal, explore the past, present and future of mass transit.

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NOSTALGIA RIDES

Celebrate Our 50th Birthday on July 4 and 5!

On July 4, 1976, the Transit Museum opened inside the decommissioned Court Street Station. Fifty years later, we’re celebrating where it all began with vintage train rides inspired by the original HH Shuttle, the short route that once connected Court Street and Hoyt-Schermerhorn.

Join us Saturday, July 4 and Sunday, July 5, from 10am to 4pm, to ride Museum cars back and forth along this historic Brooklyn route. Rides are included with Museum admission and advanced registration is recommended.

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Go on a Citywide Scavenger Hunt with Our New App

Celebrate the Museum’s 50th Anniversary with our first-ever mobile app, featuring a scavenger hunt across the five boroughs, a family-friendly hunt in Grand Central Terminal, transit trivia games, special photo filters, and more. Discover hidden transit history, test your knowledge, and earn rewards as you go.

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ON VIEW IN BROOKLYN

The New York Transit Museum: 50 Years of Stories
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NOW ON VIEW

The New York Transit Museum: 50 Years of Stories

Drawn from the Museum’s vast collection of photographs and objects, this special anniversary exhibition highlights unusual transit experiments, bold proposals for improving the system, and the memorable personalities who shaped it.

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The exhibit "Ode to the Orange Seats" on view at the New York Transit Museum.

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Ode to the Orange Seats

Featuring works by 14 artists, this exhibit is a loving tribute to an increasingly rare sight in New York’s subways: the orange and yellow bucket seats first introduced on R44 cars in 1971.

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FAREwell, MetroCard

As OMNY becomes the new way to pay, this exhibition invites visitors to explore the MetroCard’s origins, its systemwide rollout, the technology behind it, and the many ways it became a cultural icon for a generation of riders.

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Ticket To Ride

Through archival photographs, ephemera, and objects from the Transit Museum’s extensive collection, Ticket to Ride shows the evolution of fare collection across all of New York’s modes of transportation.

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Moving the Millions

Home to twenty vintage subway and elevated cars dating back to 1907, and a working signal tower, the Museum’s working platform level spans a full city block.

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PERMANENT

On the Streets: New York’s Trolleys and Buses

Explore the story of above ground mobility and surface transit from the early 1800s to the present.

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