The New York Transit Museum, while not has famous has other tourist attractions it could certainly be one because of the different experiences that each visitor gets from it. The New York Transit Museum or the NYC Transit Museum has it is often referred to is a site which displays historical artifacts that relate to the New York public transportation such has buses and trains, the museum is located in Court Street and it is open to the public.

On June 1946 the subway station known has Court St was abandoned due to the lack of ridership and closed its doors to the public, however after being abandoned for years the Transit Authority came up with a bright idea that consisted of using the “now” abandoned Court St station has a exhibition of public transportation, the exhibition was planned to run for a limited time but it has continued until present day. The museum itself belongs to the Mass Transit Authority or the MTA has it is commonly known, it is also considered to be one the most well preserved museums around NYC. When visiting the museum of transit it is not likely for people to have the same experiences has other people do, what I mean is that the experience can vary with each person, such case happened to Edward Rothstein an author of the New York Times who visited the New York Museum Of Transit and wrote of his experiences. Before entering the museum Edward Rothstein begins to wonder why most of the people living in New York do not care about the subway and also why people who ride the subway do not pay attention to things that may seem silly at first but, once they are asked about them they do not know, one example Rothstein offers is a statement in which he says ” We also don’t think much about what makes the trains run.” This quote implies that even though we might know where the energy to make the train move is obtained from, we might not know how it is implemented onto the subways or the rails to make them run. Rothstein then begins to transition into the reasons that he believes why people might think that the museum is nothing sort of the ordinary and states ” We descend the steps almost as if we were ordinary straphangers, as if we didn’t realize this Court Street subway stop… was decommissioned long ago to be used as a museum.” This quote by Mr. Rothstein implies that if a person goes to the museum of transit thinking that it is like any other subway stop or just another day at work then the person is not going to see the wonders of the museum and the artifacts but, ratter a simple abandoned train station that has nothing to offer. In a later part of the reading Mr. Edward Rothstein begins to describe the different exhibitions offered at the museum, he also describes different things that have happened at the location such as the filming of the movie “The Taking of Pelham One Two Three” and the usage of a generator that causes a enormous wheel to move.

Another person who experienced a day at the NYC Transit Museum was an author of the New York Magazine by the name of Melissa Noble. Melissa Noble describes the museum has a underground institution that guides visitors through the evolution of one of the largest transportation systems in the world, not also that but she starts to describe the pictures that she observes throughout her walk around the museum, but there is one picture that she makes stand out and that picture is the one with the line of the first transit workers building the first subway station in city hall in 1904. Noble  Towards the end of the article Melissa Noble states “Complete with garish advertising and uncomfortable seats, the cars leave visitors to muse that the more things change, the more they stay the same.”  she implies that even though some things about the subway change, the subway will still be up and running no matter the changes.

After reading these two accounts we can understand that when an individual visits the New York Museum Of Transit their experiences can vary with what the person wants and is willing to explore.

The Museum of Transit is a place in which people have the opportunity to see the history of one of the most famous systems of transportation in the world, the museum itself has provided a different experience for both first time attenders and returning fellows alike and while not has big and popular has other attractions, it has certainly won over the hearts of those who have visited .