This is a pristine, uncirculated trolley transfer ticket from the BMT (Brooklyn-Manhattan Transit Corporation) issued on June 1, 1933.

Condition and Provenance
This item is part of a substantial, high-grade transit collection recently added to our store, featuring decades of curated New York City history. This ticket was recently removed from a meticulously maintained archival collector’s binder. As such, the reverse side features a small piece of collector's tape from its original mounting. The tape has no ill effect on the structural integrity or quality of the paper other than its visual presence on the back. The ticket remains crisp, unpunched, and in uncirculated condition.

Collector Highlights
This is ticket #00002, an ultra-low serial number representing the second ticket in the book for the Park Ave. Line on that Thursday morning in 1933. The reverse side features a detailed directory of transfer points serving many of Brooklyn's most iconic neighborhoods, including the Marcy Avenue, Sumner Avenue, Ralph-Rockaway Avenue, and Broadway lines. It also details specific transit restrictions, such as the Vanderbilt Avenue transfer "toward 20th Street only." Unlike standard circulated transfers, this specimen is unpunched and uncirculated, likely preserved as a file copy.

Historical Context
The Park Avenue Line was a key Brooklyn transit route, serving the bustling residential and commercial corridors of the borough's northern and central neighborhoods. This 1933 specimen captures the height of the BMT's private surface operations during a pivotal era of New York transit history. These trolley lines were the lifeblood of Brooklyn before the system-wide transition to motorized bus service.

Please visit our store to see the rest of this newly listed collection, featuring many more rare, low-numbered tickets from this historic era!