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99 Schermerhorn Street, Brooklyn, New York
The museum is located in an actual subway station that is no longer in use. The entrance is shown in the left photo below. In the right photo below is my wife, Barbara Cepinko, in a historic subway ticket office. Many New York Subway trains were on display including trains that were in service from the turn of the century right up to subway trains currently in service. Also on display were photos and videos from the start of the building of the subway in the 1800's along with all sorts of tokens, turnstyles and maps from various decades over the last century.
7th & 8th Avenues, between 31st & 33rd Streets, New York City
Robert and Kandace Tabern of Midwest Rail Rangers by coincidence were coming into New York City at the same time we were in New York City. They were arriving by Amtrak train so we arranged to meet with them at a genuine New York pizza place nearest Penn Station. We arrived a bit early so we went into the Blarney Stone shown below and had a glass of wine. NY Pizza Supreme had some of the highest ratings for the best NY Pizza so we planned to meet there. We almost switched to Famous Amadeus Pizza (also shown below) as they also are highly rated and were less crowded, but they serve Sicilian style pizza rather than New York style pizza.
410 8th Avenue, New York City
Just steps from NY Penn Station.
408 8th Avenue, New York City
Just steps from NY Penn Station.
413 8th Avenue, New York City
Just steps from NY Penn Station.
NY Pizza Suprema had about 20 different types of pizza that you could buy by the slice. That made for very quick service no matter what type of pizza you want. Oddly they didn't have just a plain cheese pizza available by the slice and had to cook one up fresh. Maybe they just ran out of that one by the slice. My wife and I split one slice of plain NY cheese pizza and one slice of Superema's own Specialty Pizza which seem to have just about everything on it. Both types of pizza were delicious!
From let to right at the table: Stephen Grande (me), Barbara Cepinko (my wife), Kandace and Robert Tabern.
E 59th St & 2nd Avenue, New York City
We decided to make this a "transit day". It started out with visiting the New York Transit Museum, then meeting the Taberns near Penn Station, and finally closing it off taking the Roosevelt Island Tram. Until this trip I didn't know that a tram even existed in New York City!
"The Roosevelt Island Tramway provides the most modern aerial tramway in the world, running every 7-15 minutes from 59th Street and Second Avenue in Manhattan to Tramway Plaza on Roosevelt Island. Passengers must exit the tram at each stop (either Manhattan bound or Roosevelt Island bound) and pay again to return to the other side. Only MTA MetroCards are accepted. The tram follows the same fare structure as the MTA."
Above: The tram station on the Roosevelt Island end of the tram trip.
455 Main Street, Roosevelt Island, New York City
Once we got off the tram at Roosevelt Island a woman on the street overheard us talking about a place to go eat. She told us there was a nice Italian restaurant just a block down the street. We found it and when in just a few minutes before they were closing. The server told us that they were still serving pizza but no other items on the menu. Though we had pizza earlier in the day, we decided to go ahead and order another pizza. But this time we got a square Sicilian pizza instead of a New York style pizza. A different style, but this pizza was also delicious! We had plenty left over and brought the rest back to our hotel. Below is the Italian wine we purchased to go with our pizza. The wine was also very good.
To top off our "transit day" we took the F Train one stop from the Roosevelt Island Subway Station to the subway station nearest to our hotel. We almost decided to walk it. Google Maps showed that our hotel was only located one and a half miles from the Italian Restaurant on Roosevelt Island. We could probably have walked it in about 30 minutes.
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