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 ...
An abandoned New York City subway station briefly returned to public life when mayor-elect Zohran Mamdani held his private swearing-in ceremony beneath its tiled arches on January 1. The Old City Hall ...
After more than three decades of swipes, the MetroCard, a familiar piece of New York City history, is heading into retirement. The New York Transit Museum is marking the moment with a special exhibit ...
When the MetroCard replaced the New York City subway token in 1994, the swipeable plastic card infused much-needed modernity into one of the world’s oldest and largest transit systems. Now, more than ...