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On the Move: Transportation Toys from the Permanent Collection Ongoing
1220 Fifth Avenue
(between 103rd and 104th Streets)
New York, NY 10029
Tel: (212) 534-1672
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Tues – Sun: 10 am – 5 pmOn the Move is a special installation of toy and miniature vehicles from the museum's permanent collection that not only suggest the lives of the children who played with them but also reveal how transportation evolved and changed in the 19th and early 20th centuries.
The transportation toys on view are modeled on vehicles once commonly recognized throughout the city: Boats for traversing New York's rivers and harbors; horse-drawn carts and wagons used for local transport, conveying goods throughout the city, and enabling police and fire departments to get where they were needed; and the gas-powered automobiles and trucks that were traveling the city's streets and crossing its great bridges by the early 20th century.
- Directions: By subway: 6 to 103rd Street, walk three blocks west; 2, 3 to 110th Street - Central Park North, walk one block east to Fifth Avenue, then south to 103rd Street
Bus: M1, M3, M4, M106 to 104th Street, M2 to 101st Street
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Museum of the City of New YorkAmong the city’s major museums, there is only one with the words “New,” “York,” and “City” in its name, and this is precisely what gives the Museum of the City of New York its unique mandate: to explore the past, present, and future of New York City and to celebrate its heritage.
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