{"id":348092,"date":"2026-09-16T06:12:30","date_gmt":"2026-09-16T06:12:30","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/348092\/"},"modified":"2026-09-16T06:12:30","modified_gmt":"2026-09-16T06:12:30","slug":"bus-festival-rolls-into-brooklyn-this-saturday","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/348092\/","title":{"rendered":"Bus Festival Rolls Into Brooklyn This Saturday"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"has-drop-cap wp-block-paragraph\">On Saturday, iconic pieces from <a href=\"https:\/\/galeriemagazine.com\/tag\/new-york-city\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">New York City<\/a>\u2019s historic bus fleet will return to the road as <a href=\"https:\/\/www.nytransitmuseum.org\/program\/bus-fest-2026\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener nofollow\">Bus Festival 2026<\/a> kicks off at Brooklyn Bridge Park. The free-admission, one-day event, presented by the New York Transit Museum and MTA New York City Transit, includes vintage vehicles dating from 1918 through 2001.<\/p>\n<p>\t\t\t\t\t<img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"1174\" height=\"783\" src=\"data:image\/svg+xml,%3Csvg%20xmlns=\" http:=\"\" class=\"block-article-images__image\" alt=\"Vintage green and yellow bus parked on a patterned stone plaza with a large stone wall in the background.\" data-lazy-src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/09\/Bus-3100-at-the-Emily-Warren-Roebling-Plaza-at-Brooklyn-Bridge-Park-Photo-by-Trent-Reeves-New-York-T.webp\"\/><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"1174\" height=\"783\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/09\/Bus-3100-at-the-Emily-Warren-Roebling-Plaza-at-Brooklyn-Bridge-Park-Photo-by-Trent-Reeves-New-York-T.webp\" class=\"block-article-images__image\" alt=\"Vintage green and yellow bus parked on a patterned stone plaza with a large stone wall in the background.\"\/><\/p>\n<p>\t\t\t\t\t\t\tBus 3100 at the Emily Warren Roebling Plaza at Brooklyn Bridge Park.<br \/>\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\tPhoto: Trent Reeves, New York Transit Museum<\/p>\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">\u201cFor 50 years, the New York Transit Museum has called a historic subway station home, but our buses are much too big to come inside,\u201d says Regin Shepherd, Acting Director of the New York Transit Museum. \u201cBus Festival allows us to bring these extraordinary vehicles into the spotlight and welcome the public aboard for a celebration of bus history.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\t\t\t\t\t<img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"1024\" height=\"768\" src=\"data:image\/svg+xml,%3Csvg%20xmlns=\" http:=\"\" class=\"block-article-images__image\" alt=\"Restored vintage green double-decker bus inside a spacious garage, showcasing its classic design and exposed engine.\" data-lazy-src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/09\/Newly-Restored-1918-Double-Decker-Bus-303-Prepares-for-the-Festival-Courtesy-of-the-New-York-Transit.webp\"\/><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"1024\" height=\"768\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/09\/Newly-Restored-1918-Double-Decker-Bus-303-Prepares-for-the-Festival-Courtesy-of-the-New-York-Transit.webp\" class=\"block-article-images__image\" alt=\"Restored vintage green double-decker bus inside a spacious garage, showcasing its classic design and exposed engine.\"\/><\/p>\n<p>\t\t\t\t\t\t\tNewly restored 1918 Double Decker Bus 303.<br \/>\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\tPhoto: Courtesy of the New York Transit Museum<\/p>\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Highlights include Bus 303, a 1918 restored double-decker open-top vehicle that was operated by the Fifth Avenue Coach Company. The bus will join another double-decker, nicknamed \u201cBetsy,\u201d which dates back to 1931. Bus 3100, from 1956, was the first air-conditioned transit bus in the U.S., and was initially built as an experimental prototype. Other standout vehicles include the Bus 100 from 1959 by General Motors, Bus 5227, which is one of the city\u2019s \u201cBlitz Buses,\u201d Bus 2185, which commemorates the 25th anniversary of the September 11 attacks, and more.<\/p>\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">An exclusive pop-up shop will feature replica models of the vehicles, as well as books, apparel, and other transit treasures.<\/p>\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Bus Festival will take place on Saturday, September 19 at Brooklyn Bridge Park<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"On Saturday, iconic pieces from New York City\u2019s historic bus fleet will return to the road as Bus&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":348093,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[36],"tags":[10923,98,100,99,10341,9,24,63],"class_list":["post-348092","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-brooklyn","tag-automobiles","tag-brooklyn","tag-brooklyn-headlines","tag-brooklyn-news","tag-exhibitions","tag-new-york","tag-new-york-city","tag-nyc"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/348092","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=348092"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/348092\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/348093"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=348092"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=348092"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=348092"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}