A Subway I Remember Fondly

Number 7, Bluebirds, NY Transit Museum – New York, New York I wanted to conclude my coverage of subways from the New York Transit Museum with this blue and white beauty. It’s the train I remember fondly. The unique blue and white configuration was introduced in 1963 for the 1964–65 New York World’s Fair. The Number 7 train ran from Times Square in Manhattan to Flushing, Queens. The station for the World’s Fair was the second-to-last stop in Queens. The blue and white subway cars were designed specifically for the Number 7 line and nicknamed the Bluebirds. I rode the Number 7 every day to high school, and including all the other times I’ve ridden it, I must have taken the Number 7 at least a thousand times. Unfortunately, the trains I experienced were not nearly this pristine. The subways experienced a graffiti epidemic that started slowly in the late 1960s but came to a head in the late 1970s and early 1980s. Exactly when I was using the trains the most—I graduated from high school in…

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