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Steel, Stone & Backbone: Building New York's Subways 1900-1925
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Venue: New York Transit Museum
Cost: Adults: $5.00
Children 3–17 years of age and senior citizens: $3.00
Museum members: Free
This ever-popular exhibition presents a look at the building of New York City's first subway line, various construction methods, and the people who built it. The exhibition features pictures taken over 100 years ago during construction, along with historical artifacts and period videos. The faces of the workers and images of the birth of the subway evoke a sense of awe and appreciation for the dedication, tenacity, and sacrifice of the men who built the subway.
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11/24/2009
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Fare Collection
-- Arts - Museum Exhibits, Arts - Science
Venue: New York Transit Museum
Cost: Adults: $5.00
Children 3–17 years of age and senior citizens: $3.00
Museum members: Free
An exhibit on Fare Collection shows representative examples of various types of collection devices used throughout the subway system's history. Visitors may interact with these devices for a uniquely tactile retrospective experience. The exhibit features the first paper ticket-choppers used in 1904, later turnstile designs that accepted coins and tokens, the MetroCard turnstile currently in operation, and a graphic timeline underscoring milestones in fare collection as well as the fifty year history of the token. Images from the museum's archives not previously displayed show these reliable vintage turnstiles in use in their respective eras.
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On The Streets: New York's Trolleys And Buses
-- Arts - Museum Exhibits, Arts - Science
Venue: New York Transit Museum
Cost: Adults: $5.00
Children 3–17 years of age and senior citizens: $3.00
Museum members: Free
A gallery dedicated to surface transportation presents, in nine complementing segments, a history of above ground mobility for the last 175 years – from the early 1800s through the 21st Century. The central element of the exhibition On the Streets: New York's Trolleys and Buses is a simulated traffic intersection complete with traffic lights and coordinated walk-don't walk signs, parking meters, fire hydrants, and an array of other "street furniture." Children of all ages will delight in our wheelchair accessible, 12-seat bus; refurbished 1960s "Fishbowl" bus cab; and child-sized trolley. Audio interviews with New York City Transit Department of Buses personnel and a commissioned photo essay A Day in the Life of a Bus complete the streetscape. Exhibition sidebars credit two men who were instrumental in the electrification of streetcars and railcars. Frank Julian Sprague (1857 – 1934), of European descent, often called "the father of electric railway traction" was responsible for the first large-scale successful use of electricity to run an entire system of streetcars in Richmond, Virginia, in 1887-1888; and Granville T. Woods (1856 – 1910), an African-American inventor who patented more than 60 devices over 30 years that sped development of telegraphs, telephones, and electric trains. One of Woods' most significant inventions, a third-rail system for conducting electric power to railway cars – successfully demonstrated in 1892 in Coney Island – made the subway a reality in New York City. The exhibition also tells the story of Elizabeth Jennings Graham (1830 – 1901), an African-American schoolteacher who won a landmark legal decision that defined the rights of people of color to ride any public conveyance on the city's streets. Ms. Graham's victory occurred 100 years before Rosa Parks won a U.S. Supreme Court case in the 1950s, that gave African-Americans the right to sit anywhere in a public bus.
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Moving The Millions: New York City's Subways From Its Origins To The Present
-- Arts - Museum Exhibits, Arts - Science
Venue: New York Transit Museum
Cost: Adults: $5.00
Children 3–17 years of age and senior citizens: $3.00
Museum members: Free
On the platform level, Moving the Millions: New York City's Subways from its Origins to the Present provides visitors with an overview of the magnitude and complexity of New York City's rapid transit system. The exhibition uses historical photographs, diagrams, cartoons, period maps, and newspaper clippings to illustrate major issues and events that influenced the development of the largest transportation network in North America. While touring Moving the Millions, museum visitors may board the Museum's vintage collection of subway and elevated trains and visit a working signal tower.
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The Triborough Bridge: Robert Moses and the Automobile Age
-- Arts - Museum Exhibits
Venue: New York Transit Museum
Cost: Adults: $5.00
Children 3–17 years of age and senior citizens: $3.00
Museum members: Free
Examining the legacy of Robert Moses, this exhibition focuses on the Triborough Bridge, now renamed the Robert F. Kennedy Bridge, designed and built to connect three boroughs and accommodate New York's burgeoning auto traffic. Enjoy illustrated family exhibit labels! Kid-friendly pictures and diagrams explain the operation and maintenance of bridges to the littlest engineers.
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