New York Transit Museum Gallery Annex & Store

Way more than just a museum space, and more than I had EXPECTED! Well worth the price of entry. Its offers a lot to learn about the history of NYC transit. Great place to bring the kids!

My son and I enjoyed the museum inside the Grand Central Station. The model Railway exhibit was nice. My son especially liked the addition of the Polar Express train along with the NYC MTA subway cars and engines this is a must see if you plan to visit NYC unfortunately this exhibit ends on Sunday 2/23/2020.

Security was extremely overzealous and rude. Got yelled at when I put my hand too close to the train set, was asked to leave my can of soda outside. I just left and this location lost money from the train I would have bought for my son.

It’s a nice place to see old subway memorabilia.if they existed in this store. It is not a museum. It would be great to see prints of old or current subway art prints sold here instead of postcards you can buy at any other shop. The train models is nice but the rest of the stuff in this stop aside from old subway tokens are junk! Time to change stock asap because everyone goes in with excitement and comes out disappointed. It feels like a tourist postcard shop on 5th ave in the 30s.

This isnt really a museum.its a gift shop.with a bunch of railroad relevent poetry thrown up on the walla.

This was one of the biggest disappointments that I encountered in my last trip to New York. It was almost impossible to find. And when I did find it it was not a museum but only a gift store from the museum. And the gift store was incredibly tiny with a very small selection.

It's a super tiny store more than a museum, but every Christmas they have a great model of NYC with some old Lionel train models on quite a few different tracks. They span quite a few years of service and are pretty detailed, great for both kids and adults interested in trains. They sometimes have extra model trains in display cases around the diorama based on old long haul train lines. Not sure I'd suggest coming here other than to see the models in December though, it's a small store with overpriced souvenirs.

If you like trains and/or the subway you’ll love it. Model electric trains run over, under, and through the landscape of New York State. Great attention to detail. Gift shop has many options for you or your train-loving friend. Model train is really a delight. Very crowded on weekends. Just remember that patience is a virtue, especially in regards to children.

A holiday tradition that will amaze the children and even impress their parents. While it certainly doesn’t begin to approach the scale of the annual exhibit at the N. Y. Botanic Garden, this layout has unique features including a New York skyline and a replica of Grand Central. Plus it is compact and located within the the magnificent Grand Central terminal.

Tiny space, but adorable merchandise and a nice train display for the holidays. Needs more Z Train paraphernalia! Unique gifts like magnets of the Courtesy Counts campaign

Great little store with a small city with working scale train sets. They also sell a variety of toy or collectible train sets.

It's a nice place, I've been to the transit Museum in Brooklyn lots of times and that place is great. But here I don't feel welcomed at all I donated money and bought souvenirs, but the security guards are just plain rude they follow you around and look at you like you’re going to steal but they ignore people of lighter skin tones.

Perfect place to shop for a transit geek! MTA and other transit related items right in Grand Central Station.

It's way smaller than its counterpart in Brooklyn and it looks more like a book shop than a museum, but at least admission here is free. When I visited, there was a model of the Grand Central Terminal and its surrounding skyline, complete with moving miniature trains. The gift shop has a decent stock of souvenirs, books, and gift items.

Head to the main museum in Brooklyn for a more complete museum experience.

I love love love this Museum. I used to come here as a kid and now that I am over 30 I still enjoy going down to see the old vintage train cars that will never ride again. I know sometimes they run these old cars on special days of the year. The old turnstyles and stuff brought be back to the 80s and showed me how far the MTA has come with the Subway system.

Visit and learn how the New York transit system was created, how it operates and even a glimpse into the future of our mass transit. Kids will love the interactive power system exhibits, as well as the real live trains they can walk through.

Grand Central Terminal is a hub for transportation but also a lot of people shop here. The New York Transit Museum has a little store that is a great peak into how great our transportation system is. This is really tourist stuff like MTA subway shower curtains and shirts with the N sign on it. But if you're interested you could check out the real transit museum in Brooklyn.

It is a nice shop, I have found the poster I was looking for, but this is not the museum, it is just the shop and small gallery. The museum is in Brooklyn.

Loved the interactive exhibit and for children they have fun arts and crafts like paper buses that actually roll

The aisles are so narrow that you are always in someone's way.but they do have more extensive merchandise than the actual museum location in brooklyn.the museum display in the rear is a nice way to kill time while waiting for a train.