Ride A Vintage Subway Train Through Manhattan For The Holidays

EAST VILLAGE, NY — Talk about traveling through time.

The New York Transit Museum is rolling out its fleet of vintage trains for its annual "Holiday Nostalgia Rides." New Yorkers can take historic subway rides on the 1930s R1-9 train cars between Thanksgiving and New Years.

For the price of a standard MetroCard swipe, straphangers can ride trains featuring rattan seats, paddle ceiling fans, incandescent light bulbs and replica subway ads from the era.

The trains will depart from the East Village's Second Avenue F line station, stop at Broadway–Lafayette Street, cruise into the West Village at West Fourth Street, then make a series of stops in Midtown at 34th Street–Herald Square, 42nd Street–Bryant Park, 47th-50th Streets–Rockefeller Center, Seventh Avenue, 59th Street–Columbus Circle and then whizz up to Harlem at 125th Street.

Commuters have several chances to catch the old school trains beginning on Sunday, Nov. 25, Dec. 2, Dec. 9, Dec. 16, Dec. 23 and finally on Dec. 30.

Trains will depart the Second Avenue station on the F line at 10 a.m., 12 p.m., 2 p.m. and 4 p.m. For trips departing 125th Street on the A/C/D line, riders can catch a ride at 11 a.m., 1 p.m., 3 p.m. and 5 p.m.

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