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🎂 Happy birthday, #NYCSubway! The subway turns 121 today. 🎈 #TodayInHistory: #OnThisDay in 1904, New York City’s first rapid transit subway, the IRT (Interborough Rapid Transit) subway opened. NYC's first subway line ran along a 9.1 mile route extending from City Hall to 145 Street, and had 28 stations. The line ran under Park Avenue South to Grand Central, across 42 Street to Times Square, and up Broadway to 145 Street. This #NYTMCollection silent film, shot just months after the subway opene

It's #WomensHistoryMonth! Throughout March we’ll be highlighting the legacy of women in transit and focusing on some of the individuals who were first in their fields. We begin with Amelia "Oppy" Opdyke Jones, the creative force behind the Transit Authority’s “Subway Sun" from the mid-1940s until the 1960s. The Subway Sun was a public service ad campaign that ran on the IRT (Interborough Rapid Transit). Opdyke Jones began signing her name as “Oppy” as a means of disguising her gender in the pred