Every year, the New York Transit Museum collaborates with the MTA to roll out vintage trains for an old-timey commute in celebration of the holiday magic in NYC. The longstanding tradition, dubbed Holiday Nostalgia Rides, are set to return once again this year starting on Sunday, December 1st!
The museum will roll out eight vintage cars from the 1930s, featuring rattan seats, paddle ceiling fans, incandescent light bulbs, roll signs, and period advertisements. They entered service on the Eighth Avenue line (today’s A/C/E) in 1932 and ran until 1977.
The train will operate on Sundays in December: December 1st, 8th, 15th, 22nd, and 29th.
It’ll only cost the $2.90 of a MetroCard swipe or OMNY tap.
This year the train will depart from 2nd Avenue – Houston Street on the uptown F line in lower Manhattan at 10 am, 12 pm, 2 pm, 4 pm and from the 96th Street – 2nd Avenue on the Q line at 11 am, 1 pm, 3 pm, 5 pm, all with plenty of stops in between for straphangers to hop on.
It will be making stops at these stations as it goes uptown:
- 2nd Avenue (F)
- Broadway-Lafayette Street (D/6)
- West 4th Street – Washington Square (D/F, A/C/E)
- 34th Street – Herald Square (D/F/N/Q/R)
- 42nd Street – Bryant Park (A/C/E, D/F, N/Q/R, S, 7)
- 47th – 50th Streets – Rockefeller Center (D/F)
- 57th Street – 6th Avenue (F)
- Lexington Avenue – 63rd Street (F, Q)
- 72nd Street – 2nd Avenue (Q)
- 86th Street – 2nd Avenue (Q)
- 96th Street – 2nd Avenue (Q)
It will be making stops at these stations as it goes downtown:
- 96th Street – 2nd Avenue (Q)
- 86th Street – 2nd Avenue (Q)
- 72nd Street – 2nd Avenue (Q)
- Lexington Avenue – 63rd Street (F, Q)
- 57th Street – 6th Avenue (F)
- 47th – 50th Streets – Rockefeller Center (D/F)
- 42nd Street – Bryant Park (A/C/E, D/F, N/Q/R, S, 7)
- 34th Street – Herald Square (D/F, N/Q/R)
- West 4th Street – Washington Square (A/C/E, D/F)
- Broadway – Lafayette Street (D, 6)
- 2nd Avenue – Houston Street (F)
For more specifics on this year’s Holiday Nostalgia Rides schedule, check out their website here.