[View this email in your browser]() # We're Seeking Miss Subways 2024 ## Application now open! **Miss Subways 2024 Friday, May 31, 7:00-11:00 pm**
**Coney Island USA Sideshows by the Seashore Theater (1208 Surf Avenue)**

Mark your calendars: Miss Subways 2024 is scheduled for **Friday, May 31**, at Coney Island's **Sideshows by the Seashore Theater**. This year's event will celebrate the New York City subway system's 120th birthday! # **Are YOU Miss Subways 2024?** We're seeking contestants for this year's event. ******Application open now. ****Submit by 11:59 pm on Tuesday, May 7, to be considered.**

[Miss Subways 2024 Contestant Application](https://forms.gle/ZG5B9vggj7Dn4yNh6)

This year, contestants will compete in **THREE CATEGORIES** evaluated according to creativity, originality, and skill:

- Costume** (new for 2024!)** - Talent - Interview

Past talent acts have included a dance by a mad scientist with Doc Ock arms, an ode to the G train, an experimental soundscape inspired by the Q, songs about subway proselytizers, and an appearance by the Wicked Witch of the Upper East Side and an immigrant from Oz.

**Start planning your costume and performance!**

[Miss Subways 2024 Contestant Application](https://forms.gle/ZG5B9vggj7Dn4yNh6)

## 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 of past winners: artist and **"first postmenopausal Miss Subways"** **Lisa Levy **(Miss Subways 2017); urban planner **Parker MacLure** (Miss Subways 2018); musician and director **Dylan Mars Greenberg** (Miss Subways 2019); and marketing pro by day/costumer and performer by night **Harmony Hardcore** (Miss Subways 2023–the first since the pandemic). 

More info at **cityreliquary.org. **Event details including tickets and celebrity judges panel coming soon!

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