The New York Transit Museum's Vintage Bus Festival returns next month, bringing a slew of historic jitneys to Brooklyn Bridge Park for transit fans to marvel
“Betsy,” a 1931 double-decker bus, will be on display at the Transit Museum’s Vintage Bus Festival on Sept. 8.The New York Transit Museum’s Vintage Bus Festival returns next month, bringing a slew of historic jitneys to Brooklyn Bridge Park for transit fans to marvel at the past, present, and future of commuting in the Big Apple.arrives at the station on Sept. 8 at 10 a.m.
The oldest buses set to be displayed long predate the MTA, having been ordered by the private bus companies that preceded the consolidated transit authority. The seniormost coach will be the double-decker Bus 1263, nicknamed “Betsy;” she was built by the Yellow Coach Manufacturing Company in 1930 and ordered by the Fifth Avenue Coach Company, which ran service in Manhattan, Queens, and the Bronx. Betsy served riders from 1931 to 1953, and is the oldest bus in the Transit Museum’s archives.
Visitors can also check out an articulated electric bus that will be on New York’s streets for many years to come, as well as a bus tow truck that helps keep the transit system moving when problems arise.
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