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BMT Brooklyn Manhattan Transit Jan 1, 1938 Crescent Street Route Ticket #00500 Rare
UNPUNCHED - EXCELLENT CONDITION - BMT TRANSIT ARCHIVE
Extremely rare uncirculated specimen featuring a perfect milestone serial number, issued on New Year's Day, 1938.
This is an excellent, uncirculated "Omnibus Route B. 13 Transfer (AB)" from the B. B. Corp. (Brooklyn Bus Corporation), a subsidiary of the BMT, issued on the first day of 1938.
Condition and Provenance
This item is part of a substantial, high-grade transit collection featuring decades of curated New York City history. This ticket was recently removed from a long-term archival collector’s binder and remains in museum-quality condition. The printing is remarkably vivid, featuring bold black typography and sharp, deep-red date and serial number stamping that has remained crisp for over 85 years.
Collector Highlights
Serial Number: This is ticket #00500, a premier milestone round number specimen issued for the Crescent Street Route.
New Year's Day 1938: Issued on January 1, 1938, a highly desirable date for collectors of New York City ephemera.
Multi-Mode Transfer: This specific ticket documents the integration of bus and rail during the late 1930s. It was valid for a final ride on the historic Bergen St. Trolley Line (in either direction or westbound to Ralph Ave. only) and the Pitkin Ave.-Brownsville (B. 14) omnibus route toward Schenectady Ave.
Uncirculated Specimen: This ticket is unpunched and has never been separated from a conductor's pad, preserving its clean, factory-straight edges. It has been maintained for decades in archival condition.
Historical Context
The Crescent Street Route (B-13) served as a vital link in the East Brooklyn transit network. Issued at the start of 1938, this ticket captures the BMT system during a period of heavy coordination between the city's remaining streetcar lines and the rapidly expanding bus network. It represents a primary source document for the private operations that served these residential and commercial hubs before the system-wide 1940 unification.
Please visit our store to see the rest of this newly listed collection, featuring many more rare, low-numbered and milestone tickets from this historic era!