For more than three decades, lifelong New Yorkers and tourists visiting the Big Apple have shared the experience of a MetroCard swipe gone wrong. Swiping the transit card too fast or too slow, with ...
New York's familiar yellow-and-blue MetroCard is about to join the subway token in the city's transit graveyard. The ...
New York City’s iconic yellow transit payment, the MetroCard, makes its final swipes at the end of 2025. The last day for riders to purchase or refill their card will be on the last day of December.
Pour one out for the ancient MetroCard and its equally old cousin, the PATH SmartLink card. The beginning of the end for these longtime ways to pay fares on the bi-state PATH system came Thursday ...
NEW YORK (WABC) -- For the first time in 32 years, you won't be able to buy a MetroCard. At the end of this year, the MTA will fully move over to the tap-and-go payment system OMNY, but some riders ...
The transition to the new tap-and-go system for New York City subway and bus riders is expected to save the agency at least $20 million annually, it said. By Lola Fadulu New Yorkers have long prided ...
Oh, what could have been. A shy and tech-savvy anteater was just a subway stop away from being the face of the MTA and its brand-new MetroCard in the ’90s, but was put to death before he was ever ...
The golden-yellow tickets reshaped how New Yorkers accessed the subway and became civic icons in the process.