Join us on our ever-popular, boardwalk-bound Coney Island Nostalgia Train! Ride our 1910s BMT B-Type Standards and 1920s BMT D-Type Triplex cars (or IND R1-9 cars) for a two-hour jaunt to Coney Island. Once we arrive at our seaside destination, brave the rides at Luna Park, check out the action on the legendary Boardwalk, or nosh on one of Nathan’s Famous Hot Dogs.
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Join us on our ever-popular, boardwalk-bound Coney Island Nostalgia Train! Ride our 1910s BMT B-Type Standards and 1920s BMT D-Type Triplex cars for a two-hour jaunt to Coney Island. Once we arrive at our seaside destination, brave the rides at Luna Park, check out the action on the legendary Boardwalk, or nosh on one of Nathan’s Famous Hot Dogs.
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Join us on the ever-popular, boardwalk-bound Coney Island Nostalgia Train! Ride the Train of Many Metals for its first ride on the Second Avenue line from 96th Street above and below ground for a two-hour jaunt along the length of the Q line. Then visit Coney Island’s beach-side amusement park, take a dip in the ocean, or nosh on some classic seaside snacks.
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For nearly 100 years Coney Island has been one of Brooklyn’s most iconic destinations. For creative photographers interested in documenting New York City’s people, landscape, and attractions, Coney Island has proved a rich subject for nearly as long. Join photographers Elaine Norman, Larry Racioppo, Doug Ross, and Norman Borden in conversation with the Transit Museum’s Associate Curator Jodi Shapiro for a discussion on Coney Island’s transformation as seen through their cameras’ lenses.
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From horse-drawn carriages to the buses and subways of today, transportation has played a pivotal role in Coney Island’s development as a seaside resort and the densely populated neighborhood it became.
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From horse-drawn carriages to the buses and subways of today, transportation has played a pivotal role in Coney Island’s development as a seaside resort and the densely populated neighborhood it became.
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Join associate curator Jodi Shapiro on August 26 for a gallery talk highlighting the Transit Museum’s newest exhibition, Five Cents to Dreamland: A Trip to Coney Island.
Join us on the ever popular, boardwalk-bound Coney Island Nostalgia Train! Ride the 1930s R1/9 cars of the Independent Subway System above and below ground for a two-hour jaunt.
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Brooklyn-based artist Heydi De Los Santos has a deep and far reaching love for New York City’s public transportation system and the freedom it allows her and is an advocate for transportation that is accessible to all. Over the course of a month-long artist residency at Summertime Gallery in July 2020, De Los Santos, who works out of YAI Arts in Manhattan, took nearly 1,000 photographs as she visited 40 train stations, bus depots and train yards across the city. From East Harlem to Coney Island, De Los Santos documented trains moving through stations, transit workers who keep the system moving, and the city she observed on her travels.
Founded in May of 2019, Summertime Gallery is a nonprofit Art Studio and Gallery located in Williamsburg, Brooklyn. Summertime connects neurodiverse artists with the people and world around them. Join the New York Transit Museum and Summertime founders Sophia Cosmadopoulos and Anna Schechter for a digital discussion with Heydi De Los Santos about her work.
2019 marks the centennial of the elevated Culver Line, currently the F train line in Brooklyn, which opened in 1919 between Ditmas Avenue and West 8th Street in Coney Island. Join transit historian and CUNY professor Andrew Sparberg on a walking tour to explore the rich and varied history of the Culver Line, with stops at four stations along its route: 9th Avenue, Ditmas Avenue, Kings Highway, and West 8th Street. Learn interesting facts about the elevated surface tracks from 1875 that preceded it, and how the Culver Line got its name.
