{"id":351150,"date":"2026-09-19T15:34:29","date_gmt":"2026-09-19T15:34:29","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/351150\/"},"modified":"2026-09-19T15:34:29","modified_gmt":"2026-09-19T15:34:29","slug":"nycs-vintage-bus-fest-returns-with-double-decker-coach-from-1918","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/351150\/","title":{"rendered":"NYC&#8217;s vintage Bus Fest returns with double-decker coach from 1918"},"content":{"rendered":"<p data-block-key=\"pjuzu\">The Super Bowl for New York City transportation aficionados returns to the Brooklyn waterfront on Saturday.<\/p>\n<p data-block-key=\"bv6i1\">The New York Transit Museum will host its annual Bus Festival at Emily Warren Roebling Plaza in Brooklyn Bridge Park from 10 a.m. to 3:30 p.m., rolling out vintage buses that offer kids and fans a rare window into the city\u2019s transit past.<\/p>\n<p data-block-key=\"9kutd\">The museum is bringing out a special artifact this year: a bus from 1918, which is the oldest in its collection. Known as Bus 303, the dark-lime green wooden, double-decker motorcoach was once used by the Fifth Avenue Coach Company. It&#8217;s been restored, and visitors can clamber aboard and sit on its open top level, poke their heads out of its wooden windows and admire the old-school seven-spoke wheel rims.<\/p>\n<p data-block-key=\"dh2qv\">The 1918 bus could steal the show from Betsy, the <a href=\"https:\/\/gothamist.com\/news\/century-old-double-decker-to-roll-out-at-nycs-woodstock-for-buses\" rel=\"noopener nofollow\" target=\"_blank\">1930-era double-decker bus<\/a> that\u2019s been the belle of the bus ball in recent years.<\/p>\n<p data-block-key=\"flv\">Double-decker buses were the norm in the city until the 1950s, when traffic lights moved from the corners of intersections to the center above the street, getting in the way of the tall vehicles.<\/p>\n<p data-block-key=\"7jhig\">The Transit Museum has a stacked lineup beyond the double deckers, including \u201cBus 100,\u201d a 1959 model distinctive for its round \u201cfishbowl\u201d windshield and parallelogram-shaped windows. Transit fans born after the 1970s can see some more familiar models like a \u201cBlitz Bus,\u201d the MTA model featuring a classic blue and white paint job. It was the last type of bus in the city to lack a wheelchair lift.<\/p>\n<p data-block-key=\"co11p\">To mark the 25th anniversary of 9\/11 earlier this month, the museum will wheel out a bus nicknamed \u201cPamela\u201d that was damaged in the World Trade Center attacks. It was restored and put back into service in 2005, and now features American flags and the words \u201cNever Forget\u201d on its side.<\/p>\n<p data-block-key=\"3ftrm\">\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 Regina Shepherd, the museum&#8217;s acting director, said in a statement. \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 data-block-key=\"db4qh\">The event at Brooklyn Bridge Park is free to attend.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"The Super Bowl for New York City transportation aficionados returns to the Brooklyn waterfront on Saturday. 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