SPECIAL EVENT:<\/p>\n
THE NEW YORK TRANSIT MUSEUM PRESENTS
THE STORY OF THE ROCHESTER SUBWAY<\/p>\n
Join filmmakers Fredrick Armstrong and James P. Harte at the New York Transit Museum in Brooklyn on Saturday, May 6 at 1:30 p.m. There they will be presenting their Telly award winning documentary, The End of The Line – Rochester’s Subway, as well as two featurettes from the DVD release.<\/p>\n
THE END OF THE LINE focuses on the story of the smallest city in America to build, and abandon, a subway. Service on the Rochester, New York subway began on December 1, 1927 and ended in June 1956.<\/p>\n
PRODIGAL SON presents the stories of that subway’s only surviving passenger car, and one of the last men to operate it.<\/p>\n
MOTHERLESS CHILD is a final salute to the subway’s abandoned tunnel and includes a “PHANTOM RUN” through this mile-long underground stretch.<\/p>\n
A question-and-answer session with the filmmakers will follow the screening.<\/p>\n
Address:
New York Transit Museum
130 Livingston Street
Brooklyn, NY 11201-5106
Tel: 718\/694-1794<\/p>\n
Saturday, May 6, 2006
1:30 p.m.<\/p>\n
Directions to the Museum:
The New York Transit Museum is located at the corner of Boerum and Schermerhorn Street, Brooklyn Heights. On weekends, local subways are the 2, 3, 4 to Borough Hall; R to Court Street; A, C, G to Hoyt-Schermerhorn; A, C, F to Jay Street\/Borough Hall. By bus, B25, B26, B37, B38, B41, B45, B52, B57, B61, B65, B67, B75 – all stop within 1 to 2 blocks from the Museum. By car, the Transit Museum is just five blocks from the Brooklyn Bridge. Take the Brooklyn Bridge and proceed straight on Adams Street; Adams Street will become Boerum Place. You will then go two blocks to Schermerhorn Street.<\/p>\n
Just a note – as there is work planned on the 4 line through the Fall, the line terminates at weekends at Brooklyn Bridge. So if you will be coming from Manhattan, we suggest you plan to take Westside trains – or if you are closest to the east side you can take the 4 to Brooklyn Bridge and then just hop on the J train to Court Street, which leaves you very close to us. Other plans for rerouted service are often available on a recorded message at 718-330-1234.<\/p>\n