A destroyed subway station near Ground Zero on the evening of Sept. 12, 2001 after the September 11 terrorist attacks on the World Trade Center in New York City.(AP Photo/Mark Lennihan)
With 9/11 fresh in our minds from the recent anniversary, the New York Transit Museum will present its new exhibition, Bringing Back the City: Mass Transit Responds to Crisis covering events of the last decade, including 9/11, the 2003 Blackout, Hurricane Sandy and Hurricane Irene, and the Blizzard of 2010.
The New York Transit Museum has provided us a sneak preview of some of the images visitors will see in the exhibit. Bringing Back the City: Mass Transit Responds to Crisis includes photographs, artifacts, and recorded oral histories. Gabrielle Schubert, Director of the New York Transit Museum, says, “It seemed like a story that needed to be told. Most New Yorkers don’t realize that transit personnel are also on the front lines when disaster hits the city.”
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