Open House New York Weekend: New York Transit Museum and The Evolution of Subway Car Design

The New York Transit Museum is housed in Court Street station, a decommissioned subway station in downtown Brooklyn. Court Street station is a typical IND station of the 1930s, consistent with aesthetics and design of other stations of its era, and as functional as any other two-track, stub-end IND terminal. It was built with grander plans for a future that never materialized, and as such was underutilized with just a few hundred riders per day for nearly the entirety of its service life. It was closed in the 1940s and remained so for 30 years until 1976 when it was chosen for the New York Transit Exhibit for the City's celebration of America's' bicentennial. The exhibit proved so popular that it never closed. The Museum's working platform level spans a full city block, and is home to a rotating selection of twenty vintage subway and elevated cars dating back to 1907.

Join Education staff to learn about the history of Court Street station, virtually explore the Museum's platform level, and examine some of the most influential subway cars to have hit the New York City rails. 

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