Tickets available here!
Tickets are $30, or $10 for City Reliquary members. Reliquary membership costs $10/month.
We’ll celebrate our city’s iconic 24-hour transit system with a one-night-only evening of eclectic performance and civic spirit.
Contestants will compete in THREE CATEGORIES evaluated according to creativity, originality, and skill:
Costume
Talent
Interview
Last year’s performances included a tribute to the R46 subway cars accompanied by a handcrafted puppet, an operatic ode to reading on the train, a draglesque number embodying a puddle of subway goo, contortion, comedy, and a subway rat rap. Feats of strength, humorous powerpoints, we’re seeking any kind of talent that embodies the spirit of NYC and the subway system that keeps it running. Show us what you’ve got!
ABOUT MISS SUBWAYS
The City Reliquary Miss Subways updates the historic “Miss Subways” beauty contest held in New York City from 1941 to 1976 (and resurrected once by the MTA in 2004) for the 21st century. The event expands on the progressive history of Miss Subways as the first racially integrated beauty competition and invites contestants of all gender identities, body types, and ages 18+ to apply. The first City Reliquary Miss Subways was presented in 2017.
Contestants representing their subway line of choice compete for the prized title of Miss Subways and the transit tiara. A panel of local celebrity judges will evaluate their costumes, talent performances, and answers to subway-themed questions to decide who will represent NYC straphangers as the next Miss Subways!
The winner will join an illustrious lineup. Past winners of the City Reliquary Miss Subways are artist and comedian Lisa Levy (Miss Subways 2017), urban planner Parker MacLure (Miss Subways 2018), musician and director Dylan Mars Greenberg (Miss Subways 2019), marketing pro and performer Harmony Hardcore (Miss Subways 2023–the first since the pandemic), Brooklyn chanteuse Queerly Femmetastic (Miss Subways 2024), and multi-hyphenate performer Bimini Cricket (Miss Subways 2025).
18+ to enter, 21+ to drink.