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Before Hollywood became the center of the motion picture industry in the 1920s, New York City boasted several studios that produced silent motion pictures. At left we see a scene from Vitagraph Studios, which was located at East 15th St. just north of Avenue M in the Midwood section of Brooklyn, then known as South Greenfield. Photos from [...]
Signs on subway platforms sometimes have a way of preserving for posterity the former names of streets under which they ran, or former names of station stops. This is especially true in Queens, along the 7 line: 33rd (Rawson St), 40th St (Lowery St), 46th St (Bliss St), 52nd St (Lincoln Ave) and 69th St (Fisk [...]
Categorized in: Signs Subways & Trains Tagged with: Bronx Brooklyn Queens
Every year, the New York City Transit Museum trots out a vintage subway train from the golden era of transit and takes it for a three-hour spin along the subways and elevateds of the New York City Subway system. One recent such trip [1998] saw the MTA bring out a BMT D-Type Triplex that first ran in 1927 along [...]
Categorized in: Subways & Trains Tagged with: Brooklyn Canarsie Transit Museum
