Transit Museum celebrates subway system’s 110th birthday
The Transit Museum in Downtown Brooklyn celebrated the 110th birthday of the New York City subway system on Saturday with music, food, kid-friendly workshops, a special cake and a ride on a vintage-1932 subway train.
The museum is located within the former Court Street station of the long-defunct Court Street Shuttle, on Schermerhorn Street between Court Street and Boerum Place. Guests enter through what was once one of that station’s entrances and walk down a flight of stairs past a “token booth” that’s now purely decorative.
The city’s first subway line, from 145th Street to City Hall in Manhattan, opened on Oct. 27, 1904. Parts of that original line have been incorporated into the “lettered-train” system. The subway reached Brooklyn in 1908, and new lines soon followed.