September 29, 2008
Transit Museum tours, bus fest, Metro North open house
The Transit Museum has a slew of interesting tours on offer for this fall and winter, but they’re so popular that the entire season’s offerings have sold out, except for one.
The only tour still on sale is the December 14 visit to the city’s abandoned, 1904 chandeliered, Guastavino-tiled Old City Hall subway station, (pictured, top.)
 However, a couple of entirely free events are also on tap.
This Sunday, there’s free admission to the Transit Museum in Brooklyn, and the (also free) 15th Annual Bus Festival will be set up at the big Atlantic Antic street fair, showcasing vintage buses from the city’s retired fleet.
Also free, Metro-North will host a free one-day open house at Harmon Shop, its largest maintenance and repair facility. Visitors can get up close to the fleet of locomotives and work equipment and meet the railroaders who keep the trains running.
The open house is scheduled for October 11 (changed from the original date on October 18.)
 To get to the open house, you’ll need to buy a ticket on the Metro-North’s Hudson Line to Croton-Harmon Station, where you can catch a free shuttle bus to and from the shop.
As for those sold-out Transit Museum tours, the last available one is only open to people with Transit Museum membership ($40 for the friend level.) Joining also gets you first dibs at next season’s transit tours before they’re announced to the general public.
“Many of the New York Transit Museum Shop and Behind-the-Scenes tours have space limitations and often sell out quickly because Museum Members get advance notice,” Roxanne Robertson, New York Transit Museum Director of Special Projects, told NewYorkology via e-mail.
Picture source: Old City Hall station skylight, and 2006 Bus Festival by Amy Langfield/NewYorkology. Harmon Shop image provided by MTA.
Earlier: OpenHouse NY official site list, with reservation picks
Free weekly walking tours in New York City
Bellydancing, buses and beers at Atlantic Antic
September 29, 2008 2:38 PM in Architecture, Downtown, History, Kids, Museums, Sightsology, Tours, Transportology
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