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 December 27, 2024, https://loyolanotredamelib.org/en203/items/show/37.