And, if  http://www.straphangers.org  does not know when the last straps 
were retired (see my immediately prior eMail), then the New York Transit 
Museum should certainly know (hopefully, he added):

New York Transit Museum
Boerum Place & Schermerhorn Street
New York (Brooklyn P.O.), NY 11201

www.mta.info/mta/museum/


I hope this information is useful or, at least, interesting.

Regards,

Walter Greenspan
Great Falls, MT & Jericho, NY

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It has been a few years since I rode the subway and I find there are no 
straps, and hence no real "straphangers." Does anyone know when the last 
straps were retired? Were they removed for a particular reason or merely 
omitted as newer cars replaced those with straps?
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