Museum Monday: New York Transit Museum
The entrance to the New York Transit Museum may be easy to miss– it looks like the entrance to a functioning subway station. Housed in a now-defunct 1930s Brooklyn Court Street subway station, this museum honors the birth and evolution of the the now 100-year-old New York City subway.
Explore the history of the subway with vintage subway cars (complete with ads from the era), old subway maps, wooden turnstiles, and retro mosaics that were once in the station. Interactive exhibits are fun for the whole family and even allow you to sit in the conductors compartment of a decommissioned subway car.
The New York Transit Museum also has a Manhattan annex. The New York Transit Museum Gallery Annex & Store at Grand Central Terminal is open Monday–Friday 8am-8pm, Saturday-Sunday 10am-6pm and admission is free.
Location: New York Transit Museum, Boerum Place and Schermerhorn Street, Brooklyn Heights (map) 718-694-1600
Subway: 2,3,4,5 to Borough Hall; M, R to Court Street; A, C, G to to Hoyt-Schermerhorn Street; A, C, F to Jay Street-Borough Hall
Days and Hours: Tuesday–Friday 10am-4pm. Saturday and Sunday Noon-5pm. Closed Mondays and major holidays.
Cost: $5 Adults, $3 children (3–17 years), $3 senior citizens (62+)
Check out last week’s Museum Monday post on the Museum at Fashion Institute of America. Museum Monday continues next week with a post on the the New Museum of Contemporary Art.
Photo credit: Nealy-J via flickr, Kilgub via flickr
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