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Transit Museum offering a ride to the past
The New York Transit Museum wants to take riders on a day trip through the city and into the past with vintage train cars.
The downtown Brooklyn museum is offering Nostalgia Rides from the museum to Coney Island and from the Grand Central Terminal shuttle platform to Orchard Beach and Van Cortlandt Park this summer, on trains New Yorkers would have ridden in the early 20th century.
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MTA and other local agencies getting more federal funds to fix up after Sandy
The feds are doling out another $164.2 million to help area transit agencies pay for superstorm Sandy-related costs.
The MTA is receiving an additional $756,915, bringing the total amount reimbursed to almost $194 million. Some of the funds cover the restoration of A train service to the Rockaways, a disruption affecting 30,000 riders each day.
Work on the rail is scheduled to be completed... » more














