The Journal of NYC Subway: Spending a weekend in New York Transit Museum

If you are finding a place to spend your weekend, New York Transit Museum (NYTM) will be a pleasant surprise for both you and your companion.

A Paradise for Public Transportation Junkie:

A trip underground to the New York Transit Museum can be an interesting and educational. You will start your visit from a funnel for the exhibition ‘Steel, Stone & Backbone: Building New York’s Subways’, massive visual resources depict the construction methods and labor required to build the city’s first subway line at the turn of the 20th Century.

Another historical exhibition ‘Fare Collection’ traces the history of paper tickets, tokens, illegal slugs, MetroCards, and the many turnstile designs (both vintage and contemporary) that have moved commuters through the system since 1904.

Bringing Back The City presents how mass transit responds to crisis. When disaster strikes, it is the dedicated staffs who get this “city that never sleep” moving again. From storms, blizzards, and blackouts to the terror of September 11, 2001, their stories are striking examples of resourcefulness, resilience, and heroism in times of crisis.

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An Amusement Park for Children:

If you are looking for a museum for your kids to entertain or you really love those little trouble-makers, New York Transit Museum is a great place to explore. It is a place full of delighted elements for your kids and you to spend the entire afternoon.

There is a section where hundreds of bus models are displayed in several glass cabinets. Children will definitely stop by these windows, staring at these “toys” without an intention to leave.

To enroll in an education program, you can check the museum’s official website and find an appropriate program for your kids. For example, Subway Sleuths is an after-school program at the New York Transit Museum that uses a shared interest in trains among kids on the autism spectrum to encourage peer-to-peer interaction and develop social skills and confidence through goal-oriented sessions.

Another magic section in this museum is an area with different real-sized bus and trolley models, on which children can act as drivers, navigating these transportation tools. They can also pretend to ride as passengers, fueling a bus with gas and following the street lights and signs.

Here is a tip to entertain those lovely trouble-makers: just smile and try to catch their eyes! Your laugh and movements will make them happier and playing with you!

The Best Place to Photograph:

"Beautiful" and "subway" won't often fit together in a statement about New York City’s transit system. When it comes to the city’s vintage subway cars, though, any rider can agree they hold both history and allure.

In the bottom level of the museum, there is a subway station with one platform and two tracks that store a historical cross section of preserved subway cars. You can take a walk of vintage subway cars in the 1920s, 1940s, 1960s and feel like a trip back in time. The varying colors, interior designs and changing advertisements offer people a glimpse about the evolving decades the cars represent. The most delightful and fun surprise is that these old cars give visitors a great chance to snag vintage subway pics. You can reenact scenes from famous movies and take a nostalgia trip.