I took a quick trip to the New York Transit Museum in Downtown Brooklyn. Housed in the decommissioned Court subway station, the location is not only home to the museum, but has also been used in several movies, including the French Connection and the Taking of Pelham 123 (1974 and 2009 versions).
And, the facility sure feels like a subway, so they got that part right, from the entrance on down.
Museum entrance. It is easy to miss.
The museum tells the story of mass transit and rapid transit solutions in the New York area. There are old trains, old photos, times lines, turnstiles, an array of tokens used (now cards and not tokens are used) and more. It was fun and the museum people were very accommodating (I got to park my extra bag in the stroller waiting area). I was surprised there were no video or audio demonstrations (or I missed them somehow).
Their subway trains were pretty cool (not my photo):
A set of early cars.
A collection of scale model trolleys showed how the local trolleys evolved over time.
An interior shot of the facility
Me driving a newer bus.
Me driving an older bus.
Horses, trolleys, rains and people all navigating the same space in 1895 Manhattan. Craziness! Click on it, as I made it extra large.
The evolution of turnstiles.
