You can own the last relic of a dead variety.
Redbird model subway cars, which have been guarded outside the Queens Autonomous Region Hall since 2005, are now available for personal purchase.
"Brought by those who sold the Staten Island Ferry to Pete Davidson, DCAS is now auctioning the last surviving @MTA Redbird subway car. "The New York City-wide management servicetweetedon Thursday. "First bid: $ 6,500. Let's go!"
The auctionstarted on Wednesday, but Redbird is definitely in the New York City Transit so far. It was the most beloved train, but no one has bid on car # 9075 yet.
"Nothing symbolizes Queens as good as Redbird when it comes to the subway," New York Transit Museum curator Jody Shapirotells the New York Timesabout a 50-foot-40-ton train. Told. It is the last variety with a tear-shaped metal handgrip, which is the origin of the name "Strafanger".
Built between 1959 and 1963, it brought visitors from the 1964 World Exposition at Flushing Meadows Corona Park. By the early 2000s, new stainless steel cars had replaced the colorful fleet, and thelast Redbirdrode a truck from Times Square to Shea Stadium on November 3, 2003. This was an experience similar to losing a family. ,says one sad rider.
After being abolished, 714 cars sank into the sea to form an artificial reef66}.
However, the car in the auction block was saved by former Queens President Helen Marshall. He threw one of the birds out of the cue garden office and demanded that it be used as a tourist information center. , Times reported. The $ 1 deal with the MTA took place immediately and the vintage ship has been sitting there ever since.
The current President of the Queens Autonomous Region, Donovan Richards, did not share Marshall's affinity for trains and is now selling it off, with grass hills "visitors and surroundings." We are rethinking how we can be most effectively involved in building a community. A spokesman told the Times.
The auction is set to end on July 2nd, but the note on the bid page "may be extended".
