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#TransitTrivia: These photos from the #NYTMcollection show a fan trip in 1997! What train car-types are pictured?
Does this look familiar? This #NYTMcollection photo from May of 1976 shows the fare control area of our Court Street station-home, prior to the installation of the first New York City Transit Exhibition!
April 25th is #WorldPenguinDay! To celebrate these fascinating flightless birds, we’re sharing this 1950 Subway Sun advertisement from the #NYTMcollection. Illustrated by Amelia Opdyke “Oppy” Jones, it urged #NYCsubway commuters to visit the penguins at the @BronxZoo.
#ObjectSpotlight on this 1940s #StatenIsland Coach Company bus map and ticket from the #NYTMCollection. Trolleys and streetcars had been running on Staten Island since 1892, but were gone by 1934. The Staten Island Coach Company replaced many of those former routes with buses.
#ObjectSpotlight: Dating back to 1964, this @LIRR token from the #NYTMCollection was used for the 1964 World’s Fair. It features “Dashing Dan,” the #LIRR’s Route of the Dashing Commuter mascot on one side and the World’s Fair Unisphere on the reverse.
#TodayInHistory: #OnThisDay in 1834, New York State officially chartered the Long Island Rail Road (@LIRR). 190 years later, the LIRR is the nation’s busiest commuter line. These #NYTMCollection photos show the LIRR at various points in its history.
#HappyPassover #ChagSameach to all who celebrate from the #NYTransitMuseum! These closeups of subway station interiors from #NYTMCollection photographs show a variety of kosher products advertised in the #NYCsubway in the 1940s-60s. Do you have a favorite matzoh or kosher wine?
This #NYTMcollection photo shows a detail of a Fifth Avenue Coach Company L-type bus chassis from the early 20th century. You can explore more photographs and objects related to Fifth Avenue Coach Company at nytransitmuseum.org/onlinecollecti….
#TodayinHistory: Taken #OnThisDay in 1901, this remarkable #NYTMCollection photograph shows the second iteration of Madison Square Garden on 26th Street and Park Avenue South, complete with signage for Buffalo Bill's Wild West Show and a line of people waiting to see it.
#TodayinHistory: Taken #OnThisDay in 1928, this #NYTMCollection photo depicts Smith Street between Carroll Street and 1st Place. It was taken as survey photograph prior to the construction of the IND 8th Avenue line.
From the #NYTMcollection, this Wattmeter was manufactured by Weston Electrical Instrument Co. in 1913 and includes a brass IRT electrical lab property plate. You can explore more objects in the #NYTransitMuseum’s collection by visiting nytransitmuseum.org/onlinecollecti….
#TransitTrivia: This #NYTMcollection photo from 1963 shows Walter Schlager at his swearing-in ceremony as he became the General Manager of the New York City Transit Authority. Years later, Schlager would go on to hold what position at the @LIRR?
#DidYouKnow there was once a trolley terminal underneath Delancey Street? The Williamsburg Bridge Trolley Terminal was the departure point for streetcar service running over the Williamsburg Bridge from 1908 to 1948. These #NYTMCollection images show the terminal in operation.
This #NYTMcollection gum vending machine is from the 1960s. In center frame are depictions of four packs of Beech-Nut Gum in peppermint, spearmint, and “fancy fruit” flavors. Explore more of the #NYTransitMuseum’s collection by visiting nytransitmuseum.org/onlinecollecti…!
Taken in 1957, this #NYTMcollection survey photograph shows the southbound 91st Street station kiosk at the northwest corner of 91st Street and Broadway during platform extensions on the IRT Broadway–Seventh Avenue line. Do you pass through this station on your commute?
#TodayInHistory: #OnThisDay in 1822, Ulysses S. Grant, 18th president of the United States, was born. Exactly 75 years later, construction was completed on Grant's Tomb, which seen here in this 1930s postcard from the #NYTMCollection, along with the George Washington Bridge.
Originally opened in 1915, this #NYTMcollection film negative shows Fort Hamilton Parkway station in 1943. What differences can you spot between the station then and now?
Have you ever been inside the David N. Dinkins Manhattan Municipal Building? Its construction began in 1909 and was completed in 1914, one year after this #NYTMcollection photo was taken.
From the #NYTMcollection, this IND station sign is from the 1930s. It reads "To Manhattan" in black sans-serif letters on white background, with an arrow pointing left. You can explore more objects in our collection by visiting nytransitmuseum.org/onlinecollecti….
#ThenAndNow: Taken #OnThisDay in 1975, this #NYTMCollection photo shows the corner of 41st St and 2nd Ave in @IndustryCity in #Brooklyn, during a delivery of brand new R-46 cars to the #NYCsubway system. Today, the portion of tracks under the building’s canopy is paved over.
