New York Transit Museum
Side view of the street entrance on the corner of Boerum Place and Schermerhorn Street
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 Location in New York City
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| Established | July 4, 1976 |
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| Location | Former Court Street station, Boerum Pl., Brooklyn, NY 11201 United States |
| Coordinates | 40°41′25″N 73°59′24″W / 40.6904°N 73.9900°WCoordinates: 40°41′25″N 73°59′24″W / 40.6904°N 73.9900°W |
| Type | Railway and mass transit museum |
| Accreditation | ASTC |
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Bus: B25, B26, B38, B41, B45, B52, B57, B61, B62, B63, B65, B103 Subway: Court Street – Borough Hall      Jay Street – MetroTech   
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| Website | www.nytransitmuseum.org |
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Court Street
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| Former New York City Subway rapid transit station | |||
Station platform with museum exhibits
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| Address | Schermerhorn Street & Boerum Place Brooklyn, NY 11201 |
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| Borough | Brooklyn | ||
| Locale | Downtown Brooklyn | ||
| Coordinates | 40°41′25″N 73°59′24″W / 40.6904°N 73.99°W | ||
| Line | IND Fulton Street Line | ||
| Services | None (currently occupied by museum) | ||
| Structure | Underground | ||
| Platforms | 1 island platform | ||
| Tracks | 2 | ||
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| Opened | April 9, 1936 | ||
| Closed | June 1, 1946 (as a subway station) | ||
| Accessible |
 (station was not wheelchair accessible when it was in service) |
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| Next north | (Terminal): no regular service | ||
| Next south | Hoyt–Schermerhorn Streets: no regular service | ||
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| Next north |
none: no regular service | ||
| Next south |
Franklin Avenue (local): no regular service Utica Avenue (express): no regular service |
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The New York Transit Museum (also called the NYC Transit Museum) is a museum that displays historical artifacts of the New York City Subway, bus, commuter rail, and bridge and tunnel systems under the administration of the Metropolitan Transportation Authority (MTA). The main Museum is located in the decommissioned Court Street subway station in Downtown Brooklyn and Brooklyn Heights in the New York City borough of Brooklyn. There is a smaller satellite Museum Annex in Grand Central Terminal in the midtown area of Manhattan.
The museum is located in an actual subway station, which was originally called Court Street. The Court Street station was built as a terminus for local trains of the IND Fulton Street Line and opened on April 9, 1936, along with a long section of the Fulton Street Line and the Rutgers Street Tunnel. The station has one center island platform with two tracks. The tracks end at bumper blocks just beyond the west end of the platform. The station walls feature a tile band set in a course two tiles high (as is the case with most IND local stations), colored aquamarine with a cerulean blue border.
The station exemplified the IND service theory and the design of most of the Manhattan trunk lines, which specified that local trains should operate within individual boroughs where possible, and provide transfers to express trains which would be through-routed between the boroughs. Court Street was to be the northern terminal of the HH Fulton Street Local, which would run south (geographically east) to Euclid Avenue. Additionally, one of the alternative plans for the Second Avenue Subway would have included a southern extension to Brooklyn, tying into the stub at Court Street to accommodate through service to/from Manhattan.
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