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🎬 This 1989 #NYTMCollection archival video clip comes from the finale of "Progress in Motion," narrated by actor Avery Brooks. The film describes the advances made by the MTA's agencies since its 1982 and 1987 Capital Plans brought billion dollars of investment into #NYC's transportation system.

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New York Transit Museum Feb 17

#NYC's first documented Chinese New Year parade happened in 1888 and included a procession down Mott Street. This photo, courtesy of MTA Away, was taken by Scott Lynch and shows the entrance to the East Broadway station on the IND Sixth Avenue Line.

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New York Transit Museum Dec 1

How was #NYC's transit system desegregated? In 1854, Elizabeth Jennings Graham, a 24-year-old Black school teacher, stood her ground on a NYC streetcar. Jennings was ordered to get off the car and wait for a car that served African American passengers.

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Desi Lydic Foxsplains Zohran Mamdani, NYC's Radical New Mayor | The Daily Show

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New York Transit Museum Nov 4

November is National Healthy Skin Month, and who better to get you thinking about skin care than #NYC's favorite dermatologist, Dr. Zizmor? We are used to seeing ads on the subway for medical services now, but when Dr. Zizmor began advertising in subway cars in the early 1980s, he was the first.

New York Transit Museum Oct 25

🗺️ This circa 1925 #NYTMCollection map was the first to show #NYC's full rapid transit network after the system’s expansion in the 1920s.

New York Transit Museum Oct 18

This #NYTMCollection photograph from the 1910s shows trolley workers posing in front of a Ralph-Rockaway Avenue trolley. Trolleys were an important part of #NYC’s transportation network in the first half of the 20th century, but were phased out completely by 1957, in favor of buses.

Joe Public Oct 16

BBC: The race for #NYC's next mayor is down to three candidates who will take the stage at Rockefeller Plaza tonight to win over any undecideds before the early Nov election Zohran Mamdani is leading in the polls by wide margins #uspoli www.bbc.com/news/article...

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Andrew Cuomo, Zohran Mamdani to face off in New York mayoral debate

In an unusual race, a young Democratic socialist is leading an establishment politician by a wide margin.