Hyperallergic

NYC’s Transit Museum Pays Homage to the MetroCard

An exhibition reminisces about the yellow icon’s 32-year reign as the MTA retires the payment method for good.
Brownstoner

Transit Museum: Dig Those Wooden Subway Cars

We took one of the little Brownstoners to the Transit Museum in downtown Brooklyn last weekend for a birthday party. Our favorite part? This hundred-year-old wood subway car with woven seats. It was ...
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New exhibit at NY Transit Museum highlights 100 years of commuting through The New Yorker cartoons

NEW YORK CITY (WABC) -- A new exhibition from a partnership between The New York Transit Museum and The New Yorker is highlighting the humor, challenges and century's worth of insights into the daily ...
Brooklyn Daily Eagle

Virtual program at Transit Museum explores NY’s secret prototype subway

CITYWIDE — THE CITY’S SUBWAY SYSTEM HOLDS A SECRET DATING BACK WELL BEFORE ITS OFFICIAL OPENING ON OCT. 27, 1904, and a book released this fall unlocks the story. “New York’s Secret Subway: the ...
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With the MetroCard entering retirement, a New York Transit Museum exhibit pays homage to that valuable piece of plastic

After more than three decades of swipes, the MetroCard, a familiar piece of New York City history, is heading into retirement. The New York Transit Museum is marking the moment with a special exhibit ...