[RedRover]

Couldn't say about the dates. But rights not specified in the Constitution are reserved by the states.
It seems to me that this a municipal issue.

[Alberta's Child]

It's not a municipal issue if Federal funds are used for capital projects on the NYC subway system.

Of course, the Tenth Amendment would also seem to indicate that Federal funds should not be used for the NYC subway system -- but that's a whole other issue!