1960s

Here's a 9-minute portal to the past, when the AP documented the hippie takeover of the neighborhood.

Also: plush carpeting, and other things that have no place in the subway system.

The cinematic retellings, the visions of a bohemian utopia and freewheeling drug campground, that lineup, it's all part of Woodstock's strong mythology. But would I have enjoyed it?

And yes, we got an answer, finally.

A commercial for the special subway to the World's Fair shows people smiling and laughing... on the subway!

Staten Island was becoming a cookie cutter suburbia, and locals didn't like it.

Everything looks like a Hollywood set—colorful, clean, and almost not at all like New York City.

The skeleton that demolished the beautiful Pennsylvania Station.

A local lawyer won a subway map design competition in the 1960s, and ended up bringing color to future maps.

The MTA has put some rarely seen photos up at the Atlantic Ave-Barclays Center station.