[View this email in your browser]() # Seeking Miss Subways 2025 ## Application now open! **Miss Subways 2025 Friday, July 18, 7:00-11:00 pm**
**Coney Island USA Sideshows by the Seashore Theater (1208 Surf Avenue)**

Mark your calendars: Miss Subways 2025 is scheduled for **Friday, July 18**, at Coney Island's **Sideshows by the Seashore Theater**. We'll celebrate New York's favorite mode of transportation with a evening of eclectic performance and civic spirit. # **Are YOU Miss Subways 2025?** We're seeking contestants for this year's event. ******Application open now. ****Submit by 11:59 pm on Wednesday, June 25, to be considered.**

[Miss Subways 2025 Contestant Application](https://docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1FAIpQLSdFoTwKdac_oIJ7dd3AGn_OhdamOPVXMIVz-fJWxsxTBc2MBw/viewform?usp=dialog)

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

- Costume - Talent - Interview

Past talent acts have included a dance by a mad scientist with Doc Ock arms, a pigeon burlesque, 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 2025 Contestant Application](https://docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1FAIpQLSdFoTwKdac_oIJ7dd3AGn_OhdamOPVXMIVz-fJWxsxTBc2MBw/viewform?usp=dialog)

## 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); marketing pro and performer **Harmony Hardcore** (Miss Subways 2023); and Brooklyn chanteuse **Queerly Femmetastic** (Miss Subways 2024). 

Event details including tickets and celebrity judges panel coming soon!

**Questions?**
We're here to help. Email [info@cityreliquary.org](mailto:info@cityreliquary.org)