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Explore the rich transit history of the Bronx at a new Grand Central exhibit

13 photos

The Subway Sun: Hippo! Hippo! Hip-Hooray!!

New York Transit Museum Subway Sun Collection


Intersection of East 138th Street and 3rd Avenue, The Bronx, 1913 Photograph by Granville W. Pullis

New York Transit Museum Lundin Collection


IRT Jerome Yard prior to construction of the IND Concourse Yard, The Bronx, 1929 Photograph by Granville W. Pullis

New York Transit Museum Subway Construction Photograph Collection



Excavation for IND Concourse Line, Grand Concourse and 165th Street, The Bronx, 1928

New York Transit Museum Subway Construction Photograph Collection


Routes and General Plan adopted by resolutions February 4th and April 1st, 1897

New York Transit Museum Map Collection


General Motors TDH 5106 bus, 1959

New York Transit Museum NYCT Photographic Unit Collection



Direction signs for Sedgwick Avenue Station, 1917

New York Transit Museum Jay Street Drawing Collection


The Subway Sun: Cool off at Orchard Beach

New York Transit Museum Subway Sun Collection


View from the Whitlock Avenue station, The Bronx, New York, 1920

New York Transit Museum Subway Construction Photograph Collection


149th Street and 3rd Avenue, The Bronx, New York, 1910

New York Transit Museum Postcard Collection


Amendment No. 6 broadside, 1951: "In 1951, voters approved Amendment No. 6 earmarking $500,000,000 for transit projects including the Second Avenue Subway, extensions of existing subway lines, station improvements, equipment upgrades, power plant modernization and new rolling stock"

New York Transit Museum Collection


Tremont Station, New York Central Harlem Line, The Bronx, 1906

New York Transit Museum Metro-North Collection



Union Railway car #316, n. d., Photograph by Arthur F. Ferguson

New York Transit Museum Postcard Collection


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