{"id":222998,"date":"2010-01-24T16:26:32","date_gmt":"2010-01-24T21:26:32","guid":{"rendered":"1738 at http:\/\/atlasobscura.com"},"modified":"2010-01-24T16:26:32","modified_gmt":"2010-01-24T21:26:32","slug":"new-york-transit-museum","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/222998","title":{"rendered":"New York Transit Museum"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/atlasobscura.com\/taxonomy\/term\/642\">Brooklyn<\/a>, <a href=\"http:\/\/atlasobscura.com\/globe\/north-america\/us\/new-york\">New York<\/a> | <a href=\"http:\/\/atlasobscura.com\/categories\/museums-and-collections\/unique-collections\">Unique Collections<\/a><\/p>\n<p>The New York Transit Museum is operated by the folks who know it best &#8211; the MTA. Who better to collect and display the history of the New York Transit system?<\/p>\n<p>The museum features &#8220;Steel, Stone, and Backbone&#8221; about the building of the subways. The oldest artifacts in the museum are in the &#8220;On the Streets: Trolleys and Streetcars&#8221; section, which also describes the evolution of fuel technology in our buses.<\/p>\n<p>Do you remember old tokens? They were the predominate fare on New York Subways and buses from 1953 until 2003, when the brass coins were replaced by the now-ubiquitous MetroCard. A permanent collection at the New York Transit Museum presents the token-operated turnstiles and the paper-machines dating back to 1904; visitors enter the stations like their grandparents once did. Once upon a time, the rider paid to get out &#8211; not to get in.<\/p>\n<p>There is a forthcoming exhibit on the archaeology of the South Ferry with objects dug up from the new South Ferry station.<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/static.atlasobscura.com\/files\/imagecache\/place_main\/place_images\/2402306166_ba9bfd84d1_b.jpg\" alt=\"\" title=\"\"  width=\"280\" height=\"186\" \/><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Brooklyn, New York | Unique Collections The New York Transit Museum is operated by the folks who know it best &#8211; the MTA. Who better to collect and display the history of the New York Transit system? The museum features &#8220;Steel, Stone, and Backbone&#8221; about the building of the subways. The oldest artifacts in the [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":435,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[7],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-222998","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/222998","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/435"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=222998"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/222998\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=222998"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=222998"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=222998"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}