Mining the Archives: From Horse Power to Horsepowered Surface Transit
Wednesday, September 17th, 2025
6:00 PM ET
Virtual Program
Free
Including over 5,400 linear feet of material, the New York Transit Museum’s archive holds innumerable stories waiting to be told. In the series, Mining the Archives, join Museum staff to uncover transit history.
In celebration of the New York Transit Museum’s annual Bus Festival, Content and Research Manager, Polly Desjarlais, presents archival materials on the evolution of New York City’s street-level transportation. From 19th-century horse-drawn vehicles and streetcars to today’s motor buses, explore how each new mode of transit reshaped the city and changed how New Yorkers move through it.
Free
All attendees are welcome. You will have the option to turn on automatic captions for this virtual program. Staff will share instructions for how to do so at the start of the event. Please email [email protected] with any questions.
For general inquires email [email protected].
Image: Grand Central Depot at 42nd Street and 4th Avenue ca. 1882. Metro-North Collection, New York Transit Museum.
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