Dive with us into the history of the New York City Subway. Starting with the opening of the futuristic Fulton Center transit hub in 2014, we'll go back all the way to 1901 when the excavation for an underground train line took place. Enjoy the ride!
2014: People gather for a ceremony at the entrance of the Fulton Center transit hub, Sunday, Nov. 9, 2014 in New York. The $1.4 billion hub links the World Trade Center to nine subway lines in lower Manhattan and is designed to serve up to 300,000 passengers daily. The center also features retail and office space. AP Photo/Mark Lennihan
2005: A Rockaway Parkway bound "L" train heads south from Broadway Junction, Thursday, March 24, 2005 in Brooklyn, New York. The New York City Transit Authority began running computer-automated trains on the 22-mile "L" subway line through Manhattan, Brooklyn and Queens. Conductors were phased out on targeted lines, though a train operator continued to oversee controls in the front cab of each train. AP Photo/ Julie Jacobson
2003: A man walks towards an approaching subway train in Queens, New York, Monday, Feb. 17, 2003. One of the worst Mid-Atlantic winter storms in a century dumped almost a foot and a half of snow on the nation's capital, crippling transportation and clogging the streets with snow for at least the next few days. AP Photo/Gregory Bull
2001: As a workman looks on, two New York City subway cars disappear into the Atlantic Ocean after being pushed off a barge 19 miles east of Cape Henlopen, Del., Tuesday, Aug. 21, 2001. The Delaware Division of Fish and Wildlife sank 27 subway cars in 70-90 feet of water to form Artificial Reef Site 11. AP Photo/Roberto Borea
2001: A Manhattan bound W train crosses New York's Manhattan Bridge Monday, July 23, 2001. Due to the final stages of the bridge's rehabilitation, extensive changes of five subway lines linking Manhattan, Queens and Brooklyn were planned to be in effect until 2004. AP Photo/Kathy Willens
2000: A New York City Subway #7 train pulls into the Willets Point-Shea Stadium station stop outside the New York Mets' Shea Stadium, Wednesday, Oct. 18, 2000. AP Photo/Jeff Zelevansky
1997: A worker looks at the wreckage of a subway car in the 135th Street Station in New York early on July 4, 1997, following a derailment. Fifteen people were injured, two seriously, when the express train in Harlem derailed, leaving the unoccupied last car crushed and severed in half, according to police. AP Photo/Emile Wamsteker
1994: Emergency officers stand guard outside the doors of the a subway car in New York City, 21 December 1994. A firebomb exploded as the train stood at the Fulton Street Station in lower Manhattan injuring some 37 people. Photo credit should read POOL/AFP/Getty Images
1994: Tony, a 54-year-old panhandler, makes his way through a subway car along the New York City subway system on a Friday in April 1994. The Transit Authority begun cracking down such activities with arrests, anti-begging announcements in stations and posters on trains. AP Photo/Joe Tabacca
1991: Barry Couliffe sells copies of the Daily News to an unidentified passenger on the subway in New York, in March of 1991. Couliffe said that selling the 300-400 papers each day gives him enough money to pay rent on a room he shares. AP Photo/Bebeto Matthews
1988: A homeless man sleeps on New York's E train in the morning of Nov. 25, 1988 as the subway travels between lower Manhattan and the outer reaches of the borough of Queens. The E line was favored by many homeless people in need of a place to sleep because, along the entire long route, the train stayed underground, assuring that there would be no frigid blasts of air when the subway doors open. AP Photo/Gerald Herbert
1988: A workman dismantles the interior of a subway car in a renovation effort by the New York City Subway system in New York. AP Photo/Warren Jorgensen
1985: Transit Authority Vandalism Squad member of District 12 on 180 Street and Morris Park in the Bronx is looking at train ridden with graffiti. AP Photo/David Bookstaver
1985: New York City Transit Police Officer Jeremiah Lyons, center, as a decoy cop reads his newspaper on board the city subway while he carries on his act as a fare-paying passenger wearing visible gold jewelry in July of 1985. His backup Police Officer James Nuciforo, right, listens to his Ghetto Blaster radio and is ready to move in for an arrest when the crime occurs. Two other members of the backup team are in the adjacent subway car. AP Photo/Warren Jorgensen
1974: Two curious subway riders look into the window of a new style subway car, by the Metropolitan Transit Authority in New York City's IND station at 57th street and Sixth Avenue, May 13, 1974. A special press and invited guests ride to the Wall Street area followed the showing. AP Photo/Ron Frehm
1972: Grafitti on New York City subways and Buses, on July 26, 1972 in New York. AP Photo/Jim Wells
1970: Subway crowds at Times Square Station in New York March 4, 1970. AP Photo/Anthony Camerano
1966: A New York City subway train, the Manhattan-bound number 7, is pictured on the at Main Street, Queens platform with doors open waiting for passengers. AP Photo
1966: Passengers ride in a car on a New York City subway train, 1966. AP Photo
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1965: Passengers sit patiently in near-darkness in a stalled subway car at West 4th Street in the Manhattan section of New York, Nov. 9, 1965, during the massive power failure that darkened a vast portion of the northeast including New York State, most of New England, parts of New Jersey and Pennsylvania, and Ontario, Canada. AP Photo/Jerry Mosey
1964: Actress Shirley MacLaine in New York subway on way to World's Fair for premiere of her picture 'What A Way to Go' May 13, 1964. AP Photo/Marty Zimmerman
1962: Subway motorman Joseph Elender, 59, had a job but he didn't have to work. He was aboard a fully automated subway train as it made its inaugural run over the shuttle line between Grand Central and Times Square in New York, Jan. 5, 1962. The train ran itself and Elender merely had to sit there. He was aboard under an arrangement agreed upon after the Transport Workers Union protested the proposed crewless inauguration of the shuttle run. AP Photo/Hans von Nolde
1960: Passengers on a special train to New Yorks Aqueduct in Queens compare notes as the train leaves the subway station at Eighth Avenue and 42nd Street in Manhattan, New York on March 21, 1960. AP Photo/John Lindsay
1956: While other subway passengers perspire in the warm and humid underground station, Paul Forman appears cool and comfortable in the experimental air conditioned train which made its first run in New York City, July 9, 1956. The test run, which included six air conditioned cars and two old cars, was made on the East Side IRT line. The new cars provide soft music, modern design, air cooling units, deodorizers and filters to reduce germs. When the train left Grand Central Station the temperature was 89-degrees in the old cars while the new cars registered 76.5 degrees. AP Photo/Harry Harris
1954: Patterned asbestos tile flooring, increased and improved fluorescent lighting, illuminated route and destination signs, double roofs, and electronically controlled heat and ventilation, improved brakes and door controls, and foam and vinyl seats are among major changes designed for passenger comfort and greater operational and maintenance efficiency in New York City subway cars on October 26, 1954.AP Photo
1948: Vincent R. Impellitteri, right, acting mayor of New York City, and Brooklyn Borough President John Cashmore (second from right), inspect the first completed subway car of an order for 750, at the American Car and Foundry Co., Berwick, Penn., Feb. 20, 1948. C.J. Hardy, Sr., company chairman, points out a feature of the new cars. Men inside subway cab are unidentified. AP Photo/HG
1947: Interior view of the subway car of the future as it was displayed at the Chambers Street Station of the Independent Division in New York on July 9, 1947. The new car has 56 seats, 14 adjustable, exhaust ventilators, eight 10-inch fans, is painted blue and grey and has an off-white ceiling. AP Photo/Anthony Camerano
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1939: Air conditioned and equipped with upholstered green mohair cushions, a new streamlined luxury car of the BMT lines made its inaugural run in New York, March 28, 1939. This group tried out the comforts of the new car which will be placed in operation March 30. Sound-deadening and shock-absorbing devices are part of the new equipment. AP Photo
1939: The new streamlined red, white and blue Rapid Transit car which made its "maiden voyage" along the BMT lines in New York, March 28, 1939. It weighs 76,000 pounds, about half the weight of the conventional cars, and is equipped with special sound-deadening and shock-cushioning devices. The new train was placed in operation March 30 on the Fulton Street "El" between Manhattan and Queens. AP Photo
1937: Steel cars for the new 8th Avenue subway in New York, in May 1937. AP Photo
1937: This is an interior view of the new 8th Avenue subway car in New York City, May 1937. AP Photo
1900-1904: City Hall subway station, New York some time between 1900 and 1904. Library of Congress
1901: This is excavation at Lafayette Street, then known as Elm Street, near Pearl Street, for New York's subway line, seen May 6, 1901. AP Photo
