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…
Monthly Archives
June 1998
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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…
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Subways & Trains
TAKE THE NOSTALGIA TOUR! A ride to Canarsie on 1927-vintage subway cars
by Kevin WalshEvery 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…