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The Transit Museum in Brooklyn honors the the soon-to-be-bygone subway payment method.

What exactly is a museum, anyway?

People can explore the stories behind New York City's named sites with a new mobile-friendly tool one lawmaker describes as "Wikipedia for street names."

Some Orthodox Jewish neighbors opposed the change, saying it threatened their ability to remain in the area.

"This is really the epic story."

"It looks nostalgic. It looks like New York if you ask me. It's a little rough on the edges. It has rust on the roof. But at the end of the day, railfans love them because it made New York, New York."

Even the city's most tourist-trodden places hide fascinating secrets, and now some of the rarest and strangest bits have been collected into one brilliant map.

"This is the shit that falls between the cracks, descriptions of the city that would never make it into official histories."

New York City has certainly come a long way since the

While today's news are filled with shocking crimes with awful details,