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So this station that were standing in been mothballed, wasnt being used. Cars had been squirreled away in a few yards. Turnstiles were squirreled away in a few places. And so the people that worked here were able to organize bringing all of these cars into this station, and opened the facility as an exhibit called the new York City Transit exhibit. It was only supposed to stay open from 4th of july until labor day of that year, 1976. But weve never closed. So it was obviously very popular, and weve grown it from then until now, into really a worldclass museum that is very much about new york citys infrastructure and the history of its development as a worldclass city. As you walk down the steps from our entrance, you find yourself in a 1936 decommissioned new york city subway station. How did that all come about . There were three general phases of subway construction. In 1900 was when it started, and the first line of the subway system opened in 1904. In that era, the design style was

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