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Exhibits & Collections

The New York Transit Museum is dedicated to collecting, preserving, and making accessible materials relating to the region’s land based mass transit systems, past and present.

A golden shovel used to break ground on the construction of the Second Avenue Subway is on view at the New York Transit Museum.
On-View Exhibits
New York City Transit Exhibit Entrance in 1976
Digital Exhibits
Wooden BU car stationed at the museum in Brooklyn
Vintage Fleet
Back lit "SUBWAY" sign from New York Transit Museum Collection
Collections
Original blueprint of a subway sign in a curatorial drawer
Research