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New York Transit Museum

About New York Transit Museum

The New York Transit Museum (also called the NYC Transit Museum) is a museum that displays historical artifacts of the New York City Subway, bus, and commuter rail systems in the greater New York City metropolitan region. The main museum is located in the decommissioned Court Street subway station in Downtown Brooklyn and Brooklyn Heights in the New York City borough of Brooklyn. There is a smaller satellite Museum Annex in Grand Central Terminal in Midtown Manhattan. The museum is a self-supporting division of the Metropolitan Transportation Authority.

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Transport museumCorporate museum
Founded
1976

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  1. New York Transit Museum, New York01New YorkThis photo was taken by participant/team The Squirrels as part of the Commons:Wikis Take Manhattan project on October 4, 2008. This file is licensed under the Creative Commons Attribution-Share Alike · CC BY-SA 3.0
  2. New York Transit Museum02New York Transit MuseumHan Zheng · CC BY-SA 2.0
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  4. Steel Beam from the Manhattan Bridge at the New York Transit Musuem, February04Steel Beam from the Manhattan Bridge at the New York Transit Musuem, FebruaryHeatherMarieKosur · CC BY-SA 4.0
  5. Tokens and Slugs at the New York Transit Musuem, February05Tokens and Slugs at the New York Transit Musuem, FebruaryHeatherMarieKosur · CC BY-SA 4.0
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