NYC's subway station celebrates its 122nd birthday

WNYC News | Oct 30

122 years ago this week something incredible happened in New York City. The subway opened. New Yorkers might take the system for granted, but that wasn’t always the case. 

Jodi Shapiro, a curator at the New York Transit Museum, joins WNYC's Tiffany Hanssen to talk more about that history.


 

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