Rail refinement: New exhibit at transit museum features vintage ads that uncover uncouth behavior

Vintage ads on exhibit at the New York Transit Museum.

Photo by Filip Wolak/New York Transit Museum

Manners are not always commonplace on NYC subways. A new art exhibit in Downtown Brooklyn shows that etiquette was often hard to come by on trains, even in the 1930s.

“Shining a Light on The Subway Sun: The Art of Fred G. Cooper and Amelia Opdyke Jones” opened on Feb. 5 at the New York Transit Museum. Through a series of vintage posters, it shows how straphangers were just as likely to put their feet on seats and delay trains by holding doors open well before World War ll as

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