New York Transit Museum

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Address

99 Schermerhorn Street

City

Brooklyn, NY 11201

Best reached by

2 or 3 train to Borough Hall, or the R to Court Street

Ideal season

Any gray afternoon when the outdoors has failed you

Bring

A grandchild, or someone who still finds turnstiles charming

My take

A museum housed in a decommissioned subway station, which is the kind of civic wit I respect. Worth the trip for the vintage cars alone.