Car Rental New York City and New York Transit Museum

When traveling through New York City in Brooklyn car rentals, you will have the opportunity to visit many wonderful cultural and historical places. But did you ever stop to think that a mode of transportation would have its own rich history? The New York Transit Museum features over 100 years of transit memorabilia and fascinating details on how the transit system began and how it came to be one of the most traveled means of transportation in the City known today.

Highlights of the Museum

The Museum features many different exhibits detailing the transportation system at various stages throughout history. There is also an art gallery, a screening room and an education center that houses a computer resource center that allows for more in depth learning opportunities about public transportation. Here is a closer look at some of the exhibits customers of Brooklyn car rentals can visit:

Steel, Stone & Backbone: Building New York's Subways 1900-1925

Brooklyn car rentals suggests that you visit one of the most popular exhibitions which displays New York City's fist subway line, different construction methods used, and the men who built it. You can examine the amazing pictures taken over 100 years ago during the construction, along with artifacts taken from that time and video from the same period. The images from this exhibit will surely give you a sense of the hard work, dedication, and sacrifice that all who worked on the line put into this historic achievement.

Elevated City: A History of the Els in New York

This exhibition examines the timeline of New York City's first mass transportation rail lines. These elevated rail lines established in the 1800s allowed New Yorkers to venture out of their immediate neighborhoods. City residents began to establish new communities outside Manhattan and into the surrounding boroughs now that they had the ability to travel between each area.

Moving the Millions: New York City's Subways from its Origins to the Present

This thoroughly engaging exhibit will inform you on the history of the subway line by using everything including photographs, diagrams, cartoons, period newspaper clippings and historical maps. You will be delighted when you get to step back in time after viewing Museum's vintage collection of subway cars and elevated trains that have all been painstakingly restored and available for boarding. There is even a working signal tower that customers of Brooklyn car rentals can visit-a definite must see. Fare Collection Just as currency changes over time, so have the methods of fare collection used by the subway system. The exhibit on fare collection shows different types of collection devices used throughout the history of the subway system. The exhibit features the first paper ticket-choppers used in 1904, and later turnstile designs that accepted coins and tokens, the MetroCard turnstile currently in operation, and a graphic timeline detailing the milestones in fare collection as well as the fifty year history of the token. This exhibit is also worth stopping by before departing in Brooklyn car rental.

Hours and Admission

The New York Transit Museum is open Tuesday to Friday from 10am to 4pm and Saturday and Sunday from noon to 5pm. It is closed on Mondays and all major holidays. Please call (718) 694-1600 for detailed information.

Admission to the Museum is $5 for adults and $3 for children 3 – 17 years of age. The price of admission for senior citizens (62+) is $3, but admission is free for seniors on Wednesdays.

The New York Transit Museum is a great place to visit for people of all ages. Its informative and interactive exhibits will leave you with a newfound appreciation for the impressive progression the subway system has undergone over the last century and will leave you with lots to remember as you depart in Brooklyn car rental.

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