Zabar’s is keeping the crumbling MetroCard alive. Thousands of sugar-cookie-loving straphangers are swarming the iconic Upper West Side grocery store to get their hands on an edible version of the ...
Patton Oswalt knows how Spence from The King of Queens would react to the retirement of the MetroCard in New York City.
On a chilly December morning, I descended a flight of stairs and entered the New York Transit Museum. Housed in a decommissioned subway station in downtown Brooklyn, the museum was packed with ...
The MetroCard will soon become an antique after three decades of service, transforming before New Yorkers’ very eyes from an everyday straphanger totem into a relic of subway history. In honor of the ...
The MetroCard, an iconic piece of plastic utilized by countless New Yorkers to access the city's mass transit system for just over three decades, meets its demise on Dec. 31 at the age of 32. The ...
Opening March 16 in Grand Central Terminal, "Inspired by MetroCard" features original art created and inspired by the ...
For over three decades, the high-pitched zip of a plastic card hitting a turnstile served as the unofficial heartbeat of the New York City subway. But as of Jan. 1, 2026, the gold-hued MetroCard ...
The MTA has not introduced daily or monthly OMNY fare caps, even as it phased out daily and monthly MetroCards.