1907: Subway Nellie, the Dog That Christened the IRT East River Subway Tunnel » Brookly Subway Opens
According to the Brooklyn Eagle Almanac’s 1909 Gazetteer of Long Island, “The celebration matched the fervor of the Brooklyn Bridge inauguration almost twenty-five years earlier.” Honored guests included Governor Charles E. Hughes, New York Mayor George B. McClellan, August Belmont, John B. McDonald, Borough President Bird S. Coler, and E.W. Winter, president of the Brooklyn Rapid Transit.
Brooklyn Subway Opens
