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Fantastic fare-well: How the MTA and famous NYC food vendors are giving the MetroCard a delicious departure

Iconic New York eateries are saying goodbye to the MetroCard with delicious food promos for New Yorkers to enjoy throughout ...

Retirement party held for MetroCard

NEW YORK (PIX11) — 4.6 million people took the subway on Thursday, which made it the busiest day since COVID. 10% of them ...

Restaurants are honoring a disappearing New York transit classic

If you’re the sort of traveler who collects memories in flavors rather than photos, New York’s latest goodbye tour is for you ...
CBS News

MetroCard sales ending this year, MTA says. Here's when they will be phased out.

MetroCards will soon be a thing of the past in New York City, the head of the MTA announced Wednesday. "Everybody knows we've been moving away from the MetroCard for a few years," MTA Chairman and CEO ...
The New York Times

The MetroCard Goes the Way of the Token as M.T.A. Announces End of Sales

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 ...
NBC New York

MTA to stop selling MetroCards by the end of the year

The Metropolitan Transit Authority will stop selling and refilling those formerly-ubiquitous MetroCards by the end of the year in favor of the OMNY system, MTA Chair and CEO Janno Lieber told Crain's ...
abc7NY

MTA moves closer to phasing out Metrocards

LOWER MANHATTAN (WABC) -- The transition from Metrocard to 'tap-and-go' moved closer to the finish line on Friday as the MTA made OMNY cards available to their reduced fare riders. Roughly two out of ...
abc7NY

More than 50,000 New Yorkers enroll in half-priced MetroCard program, officials say

NEW YORK CITY (WABC) -- New York City Mayor Bill de Blasio and City Council Speaker Corey Johnson announced Wednesday that more than 50,000 New Yorkers have enrolled in the half-priced MetroCards ...