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New York Transit Museum
BrooklynIND Fulton Street Line
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|- |width=20% align=right|Closed||June 1, 1946 The New York Transit Museum is a museum based in an unused New York City Subway station in Brooklyn (Court Street) which displays historical artifacts of the New York Subway and bus systems. There is a smaller branch at Grand Central Terminal.
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The station
Court Street station was built as a terminus for local trains of the Fulton Street Line , and opened on April 9, 1936, along with a long section of the Fulton Street Line and the Rutgers Street Tunnel . The station has a center platform with one track on each side.
The station was part of the IND service theory that specified that local trains should operate in limited areas where possible, and provide transfers to express trains that would be through-routed between the boroughs. Court Street was to be the terminal of the Fulton Street Local, to operate between that point and Euclid Avenue . Additionally, one of the plans for the Second Avenue Line would have extended it to Brooklyn to tie into the stub at Court Street.
This through service was never inaugurated; the only trains to the station were part of the HH Court Street Shuttle, taking passengers from Court Street to the transfer station at Hoyt-Schermerhorn Streets . Due to the proximity of other downtown Brooklyn stations, and the need to transfer to reach it, Court Street never saw much service, and was abandoned in June 1946.
Around 1960, the station began to be used as a set for movies, and the entrance at Boerum Place and Schermerhorn Street was reopened for shoots.
The museum
On July 4, 1976, the New York City Transit Exhibit opened in the old station as part of the bicentennial celebration, with one subway token for admittance. Old cars which had been preserved, as well as models and other exhibits were displayed. Plans were to close it after the celebration, but it was never closed. The unused outer platforms at Hoyt-Schermerhorn Streets are now sometimes used for movie shoots.
The transit museum entrance is located at the corner of Boerum Place and Schermerhorn Street, in the Brooklyn Heights community. The museum includes subway memorabilia and other exhibits including heritage signage, models and dioramas of subway, bus and other equipment, and lectures and seminars.
At the subway station level, two tracks contain many examples of New York City Subway equipment, some of which is operable, and is used in subway excursions run by the museum and other parties (notably The March of Dimes as a fundraiser) on various parts of the system. Tickets for these excursions are sold in advance.
There are examples of most of the kinds of subway equipment ever used on the New York City Subway lines, including the predecessor and private companies. Notable absent are the three BMT experimental trains, which were scrapped before the Transit Authority began saving historic equipment. There are also several examples of elevated cars, including the BU cars, elevated gate cars that can be ridden on prearranged excursions.
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