Historic New York Transportation

Title

Historic New York Transportation

Description

A brief yet informative web page on the history of public transportation in New York City. The transportation services covered range from omnibuses (present in many stories about the period including Henry James' Washington Square, and Steven Millhauser's Martin Dressler) to subways. The website contains drawn profile views of the different types of transportation allowing the reader to better understand just what certain sources of transportation, such as omnibuses, were.

Creator

New York Transit Museum

Source

New York Transit Museum – Teacher Resource Center – History of Public Transportation in New York City. New York Transit Museum, 2015. Web. 21 Oct. 2015.

Publisher

http://www.transitmuseumeducation.org/trc/background

Date

21 Oct. 2015

Contributor

Dalton Spatz

Coverage

1850s, 1890s

Collection

Citation

New York Transit Museum, “Historic New York Transportation,” Three Decades of NYC, accessed March 28, 2024, http://www.loyolanotredamelib.org/en203/items/show/37.