Photo courtesy of the MTA
MTA and the New York Transit Museum are bringing back vintage subway train rides ahead of the Mets and Yankees home openers this season.
On Thursday morning, ahead of Opening Day for the Mets at Citi Field against the Pittsburgh Pirates, an eight-car Redbird train will depart from the 34 St-Hudson Yards 7 line stop at 11 a.m. ET and will make several stops on the way to the ballpark: Times Sq-42 St, 5 Av, Grand Central-42 St, Vernon Blvd-Jackson Av, Hunters Point Av, Court Sq, Queensboro Plaza, 61 St-Woodside, Junction Blvd, and Mets-Willets Point.
For the Yankees’ home opener on April 3 against the Miami Marlins, a four-car 1917 Lo-V train and a six-car Redbird train will depart from the uptown 4 train platform at the Grand Central-42 St. station at 11 a.m. ET and will run non-stop to Yankee Stadium.
The IRT Lo-V nostalgia train, which began running six years before the opening of the original Yankee Stadium, features rattan seats, ceiling fans, and drop sash windows.
Redbird trains feature cars from fleets delivered between 1959 and 1964 that were later repainted bright red beginning in 1984. They ran through 2003.
“The subway has carried fans to the ballpark for decades, and that journey is part of the Opening Day excitement,” New York Transit Museum PR & marketing manager Chelsea Newburg said. “Our Nostalgia Rides honor that tradition and show how New York’s greatest institutions, from baseball to public transit, continue to bring people together.”
All rides are free with subway fare.