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Current Featured Submissions

Polly Guerin
February 2005

"The Number One Bus"
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Bill Davis
November 14, 2004

"Living by the Myrtle Ave. Elevated. We used to sleep in the room right by the tracks and I didn't notice the trains, until the big Transit strike in the 1960's. I couldn't sleep that night, it was to quiet. Wasn't life simple."

Edwin D.
September 24, 2004

"My fondest memories are as a child offering to get groceries so that I could buy a token and go down to 149th Street and 3rd Avenue to ride the 3rd Avenue EL all the way to Fordam Road in the Bronx. I have always been fascinated by the 'old' or I should say the 'classical' cars that roared through 3rd Avenue."

Kristine F.
New York, NY
August 2, 2004

"One evening I was riding home from a ballet class when, as usual, someone came through the car singing. The manner in which this singing was presented was a bit on the distasteful side. A man sitting across from where I was standing asked his friends in Spanish, who I later found out were from Puerto Rico, if they would buy that man’s CD. He then looked at me and smiled. I smiled, answered back to him in Spanish, shook my head in agreement, and before I knew it about 10 of us were chatting away. Then another group of about 5 kids next to me asked if I was a dancer, and I later found out that they had placed a bet on the assumption. The young man who had guessed correctly was so happy when I answered. 'Oh, yes!' - I gave him a huge high-five, and all of us cracked up laughing! The kids asked if I would stand on my toes, so I did, and the whole car cheered! The man who I originally spoke with in Spanish joked that I could make more money than that other fellow who came through singing! I smiled, and said, 'Thanks, but that’s definitely against my rules! I don’t make money that way!' Very soon the entire car was one large laughing party of people, as if all of us had been friends for years. I often meet some of the most wonderful people on the subway: people from out of town and New Yorkers alike. There are many wonderful hearts that pass through the tunnels of this city."

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Written Poetry & Anecdotes	Spoken Stories	Artwork

Online submissions to the Memory Project in Community Crossing can take the from of written anecdotes or poetry, recorded audio messages, or original artwork. All submissions will become part of the New York Transit Museum’s digital collection, and select contributions will be featured on the Community Crossing site on a rotating basis.

The site is designed to allow people to express themselves and share their memories in a medium suitable to their stories and most accessible to them. The Memory Project even features a phone number that people may call to record brief stories about the subway or bus; these recordings become part of the digital collection, and some are featured online in the Community Crossing site.

The Memory Project and Community Crossing are provided by the New York Transit Museum and aim to extend the reach of the Museum's educational mission while inviting the sharing of original ideas and works on subway, bus and transit-related themes.