Transit Museum of New York — The Historic Subway Station turns 110 Years

The New York subway carries 110 years, and to celebrate it back on the tracks some old cars in service until the '60s. "The subway system in the Big Apple has come a long way since that autumn day in 1904," said the president of the New York City Transit, Carmen White, the US media. The first subway line, linking City Hall (the seat of mayor in Downtown) and Harlem (north of Manhattan) ran under Park Avenue South to Grand Central, crossed the 42 / th Street to Times Square and saliva on Broadway up to 145 / th Street. To celebrate the anniversary, the transport company has circulated the same train inauguration, that of 1904, from Times Square to the 96 / th Street between amazed and amused glances of passersby.

Transit Museum of New York — The Historic Subway Station turns 110 Years

"Over a century ago you could take the subway only to a section of Manhattan, but now we are able to bring people from the Bronx to the beaches of Far Rockaway - said White - It 's remarkable how the system and' evolved over the years, and we are excited to show people what to bring 'the future with the opening of the Fulton Center (the new futuristic sort station at Ground Zero, ed) in and with the extension of Line 7 in the most' west of Manhattan. "

The New York metropolitan area and 'one of the most' ancient and extensive public transport networks in the world, with 468 work stations, over 368 km of track, 5.8 million passengers every day. The system of the Big Apple and 'second only to those of Tokyo, Moscow and Seoul in annual number of passengers, and carries more people than any other US metropolitan combined. As he wrote the New York Times the day after the inauguration, the first 24 hours about 150 thousand New Yorkers used the subway for the first time. At the time, however, many looked to the new form of public transportation more as a circus show that one aspect of their daily lives.

And Google, to celebrate the birthday of Metro City, he organized a virtual tour through the old station, a real journey through time, from the walls of wooden carriages to advertise 'period, thanks to photographs of New York City Transit Museum. 

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