New York Transit Museum

The New York Transit Museum is a museum in New York City, which deals with the history of public transport of the city, focusing on the New York City Subway is located. It was opened in 1976 and is the largest museum of its kind in the United States. The museum is located in the center of Brooklyn in the former Metro Station Court Street, which had been shut down in 1946 after just under ten years of operation. In Grand Central Terminal in Manhattan there is a small branch office.

The station

Court Street was built as a terminus for local trains of the IND Fulton Street Line and opened on 9 April 1936. Equipped with an island platform station was an example of the operating philosophy of the Independent. This said that local trains whenever possible should operate within the individual municipalities and allow connections to Express trains, which in turn exceeded the borough limits. Court Street was there thought of as western terminus of the Fulton Street Local ( HH line ) that would be operating in the east to Euclid Avenue. In addition, plans were the Second Avenue Line in Manhattan to connect to Court Street Brooklyn.

The operation on the former HH line was never incorporated as originally intended. The only trains which plied to Court Street, were commuter services to the adjacent interchange station Hoyt - Schermerhorn Streets. Because of the proximity to other stations in the center of Brooklyn and the complicated accessibility Court Street was never heavily used and finally closed on 1 June 1946.

From about 1960, the station served as a backdrop for filming. The most famous film shown here is rotated Stop the Death Ride the Subway 123 from 1974 with Robert Shaw and Walter Matthau in the lead roles.

The Museum

As part of the Bicentennial of the United States, the New York City Transit Exhibit opened on 4 July 1976 in the disused station. On display were preserved older subway cars, models and other exhibits. After the ceremony, the exhibition should have been actually closed again, but she was met with such great interest that they been converted into a permanent museum.

Mid-1990s, took over the Metropolitan Transportation Authority (MTA ), the Museum of the New York City Transit Authority. The MTA has enlarged the spectrum of the museum to other branches of the New York City transit system. On the platform level, although only subway cars will continue to be shown, but available on the distribution level changing exhibitions on railways (Metro - North Railroad, Long Iceland Railroad ) and bridges ( the Triborough Bridge and Tunnel Authority) instead.

Have individual museum car that waited an overhaul before or will not be issued, are parked in the depot Coney Iceland Complex. The museum also has a large number of buses, but for which there is no permanent exhibition building. The buses are all over the city distributed in various bus depots housed and presented to the public on special occasions, such as at the annual " Busfestival " of the museum.

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