If you missed the Summer Nostalgia Rides, good news: you still have the chance to hop aboard a vintage subway train and travel like New Yorkers did over a century ago with the return of NYC Nostalgia Rides.
This weekend the New York Transit Museum will once again welcome passengers to ride their vintage fleet. Riders can hop aboard Lo-V cars at the decommissioned Old South Ferry station, travel north on the 1/2/3 line towards the Bronx, and then head down the Lexington Avenue line. The trip will conclude by looping through Old City Hall Station and ending at Brooklyn Bridge-City Hall Station.
The rides are being offered to New Yorkers to celebrate 120 years of the NYC subway system, and the journey will be a round-trip ride, lasting about 90 to 120 minutes, with no opportunity to disembark. The journey will travel along portions of the original route of New York’s first subway line.
NYC’s Lo-V cars were manufactured between 1916 and 1925 and served mostly on the Interborough Rapid Transit (IRT) Lexington Avenue Express (today’s 4 and 5 trains) and the IRT 7th Avenue – Bronx Park Express (today’s 2 and 3 trains). The last Lo-V cars served the Third Avenue Elevated in The Bronx before being retired in 1969. They’re the same trains that bring New Yorkers to Yankee Stadium for home opener and are complete with ceiling fans, rattan seats, and drop car sash windows.
The two special NYC Nostalgia Rides will take place on Sunday, October 27th, with the morning ride leaving at 10 am and the afternoon ride at 2 pm. Tickets are $60 for adults and $40 for children 17 years and under. Member prices are $10 cheaper. You can grab yours on the New York Transit Museum website.
If you can’t make this trip don’t fret; two additional trips will be made on Saturday, November 16th.