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The Future of Transit Mapping: A Panel Discussion 1988 Black Background Diagrammatic Subway Map

    • The Future of Transit Mapping: A Panel Discussion

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    What makes a great transit map? What tools will future urban geographers and transportation planners use to understand and predict travel patterns? How can navigation apps change the way we get around our cities? Four expert panelists will dig into the roles that private companies, public agencies and academic institutions can play in mapping transportation networks, talk about their diverse careers, and provide insights into emerging trends and technologies in their respective fields.

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    New York Transit Museum, Brooklyn
    Museum Highlights To All Trains Sign and Museum Platform Stairs

    • Museum Highlights

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    Join our expert Museum Educators on a dramatic journey through the building of New York's subway system, the evolution of the City's surface transportation, and our priceless collection of vintage subway and elevated cars dating back to 1904. Tours every Saturday and Sunday at 12pm and 3pm.

    Free with Museum Admission
    New York Transit Museum, Brooklyn
    World War I in the Bronx: Van Cortlandt Park Photograph shows batteries of the 1st Field Artillery preparing to leave for Texas from their encampment at Van Cortlandt Park in New York, July 1916.

    • World War I in the Bronx: Van Cortlandt Park

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    In 1917, soldiers, sailors and Marines departed New York City for France to fight in World War I. Before they deployed, some participated in training exercises at Van Cortlandt Park in the Bronx, with patriotic New Yorkers gathering at the Parade Ground to observe the activities. Explore key World War I sites in Van Cortlandt Park with historian Vivian Davis of The Bronx County Historical Society, and learn more about New York City’s role in World War I on this walking tour.
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    $35 – $40
    Museum Highlights To All Trains Sign and Museum Platform Stairs

    • Museum Highlights

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    Join our expert Museum Educators on a dramatic journey through the building of New York's subway system, the evolution of the City's surface transportation, and our priceless collection of vintage subway and elevated cars dating back to 1904. Tours every Saturday and Sunday at 12pm and 3pm.

    Free with Museum Admission
    New York Transit Museum, Brooklyn
    New York City Transit: 239th Street Yard Trains in shop at 239th Street

    • New York City Transit: 239th Street Yard

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    Covering 21 acres, the 239th Street Shop is the largest maintenance shop on the IRT! This historic site opened in 1916 and operates 24/7, inspecting, repairing, and washing a formidable fleet of R142 subway cars for the 2 line. Raymond DelValle, General Superintendent, leads this members-only behind-the-scenes look at the people and machinery that keep our trains on the go.

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    Writing Workshop with NY Writers Coalition

    • Writing Workshop with NY Writers Coalition

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    Every Tuesday at 2pm, join the New York Writer's Coalition and veteran workshop leader Eileen Sutton at the New York Transit Museum in Downtown Brooklyn for a FREE, weekly writing workshop. Draw inspiration from those bygone days through prose, poetry, theater, rhymes, and everything in between — all created in our decommissioned subway station and vintage subway cars! 

    FREE
    New York Transit Museum, Brooklyn
    Jewel in the Crown: Old City Hall Station Visitors to City Hall Station look around as a 6 train passes. Photo by Chris Funfgeld.

    • Jewel in the Crown: Old City Hall Station

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    With exclusive access through the Transit Museum, explore the elegant chandeliers, leaded skylights, vaulted tile ceiling, and graceful curves of this decommissioned subway station. The tour begins above ground, where you’ll learn the fascinating history of the Beach Pneumatic Tube and the development of City Hall. Then, head downstairs and be transported back to 1904, a time when the Subway’s opening and the completion of this station marked a moment of great civic pride.

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    Museum Highlights To All Trains Sign and Museum Platform Stairs

    • Museum Highlights

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    Join our expert Museum Educators on a dramatic journey through the building of New York's subway system, the evolution of the City's surface transportation, and our priceless collection of vintage subway and elevated cars dating back to 1904. Tours every Saturday and Sunday at 12pm and 3pm.

    Free with Museum Admission
    New York Transit Museum, Brooklyn
    Jewel in the Crown: Old City Hall Station Visitors to City Hall Station look around as a 6 train passes. Photo by Chris Funfgeld.

    • Jewel in the Crown: Old City Hall Station

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    With exclusive access through the Transit Museum, explore the elegant chandeliers, leaded skylights, vaulted tile ceiling, and graceful curves of this decommissioned subway station. The tour begins above ground, where you’ll learn the fascinating history of the Beach Pneumatic Tube and the development of City Hall. Then, head downstairs and be transported back to 1904, a time when the Subway’s opening and the completion of this station marked a moment of great civic pride.

    SOLD OUT
    Museum Highlights To All Trains Sign and Museum Platform Stairs

    • Museum Highlights

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    Join our expert Museum Educators on a dramatic journey through the building of New York's subway system, the evolution of the City's surface transportation, and our priceless collection of vintage subway and elevated cars dating back to 1904. Tours every Saturday and Sunday at 12pm and 3pm.

    Free with Museum Admission
    New York Transit Museum, Brooklyn
    World War I Living History Day

    • World War I Living History Day

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    Learn how World War I impacted New Yorkers at home and abroad with living historians at the Transit Museum! Explore classic subway cars that were on the tracks when Doughboys fought in the Great War, speak with reenactors from the East Coast Doughboys portraying men and women in uniform, view and handle objects representing new technology of the era, listen to period music on century-old phonographs with Michael Cumela, and learn about life during World War I.

    Free with Museum Admission
    New York Transit Museum, Brooklyn
    Museum Highlights To All Trains Sign and Museum Platform Stairs

    • Museum Highlights

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    Join our expert Museum Educators on a dramatic journey through the building of New York's subway system, the evolution of the City's surface transportation, and our priceless collection of vintage subway and elevated cars dating back to 1904. Tours every Saturday and Sunday at 12pm and 3pm.

    Free with Museum Admission
    New York Transit Museum, Brooklyn
    Museum Highlights To All Trains Sign and Museum Platform Stairs

    • Museum Highlights

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    Join our expert Museum Educators on a dramatic journey through the building of New York's subway system, the evolution of the City's surface transportation, and our priceless collection of vintage subway and elevated cars dating back to 1904. Tours every Saturday and Sunday at 12pm and 3pm.

    Free with Museum Admission
    New York Transit Museum, Brooklyn
    Writing Workshop with NY Writers Coalition

    • Writing Workshop with NY Writers Coalition

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    Every Tuesday at 2pm, join the New York Writer's Coalition and veteran workshop leader Eileen Sutton at the New York Transit Museum in Downtown Brooklyn for a FREE, weekly writing workshop. Draw inspiration from those bygone days through prose, poetry, theater, rhymes, and everything in between — all created in our decommissioned subway station and vintage subway cars! 

    FREE
    New York Transit Museum, Brooklyn
    Ticket to Ride: Fare Collection in New York’s Transit Systems Tokens, 1991; New York Transit Museum, NYCT Photo Unit Collection

    • Ticket to Ride: Fare Collection in New York’s Transit Systems

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    Learn how fare collection has evolved through the decades – from paper tickets, to coins, to tokens, to MetroCards – and get an insider’s view about how the future of fare collection is also the future of easier commuting. Transit legend Alan Putre (Executive Director of the MTA’s New Fare Payment Program and Vice President & Chief Revenue Officer at New York City Transit) shares tales and adventures from the frontlines of fare collection and a career spent making sure the money gets where it’s supposed to go.
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    $10
    New York Transit Museum, Brooklyn
    Museum Highlights To All Trains Sign and Museum Platform Stairs

    • Museum Highlights

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    Join our expert Museum Educators on a dramatic journey through the building of New York's subway system, the evolution of the City's surface transportation, and our priceless collection of vintage subway and elevated cars dating back to 1904. Tours every Saturday and Sunday at 12pm and 3pm.

    Free with Museum Admission
    New York Transit Museum, Brooklyn