New York's familiar yellow-and-blue MetroCard is about to join the subway token in the city's transit graveyard. The Metropolitan Transportation Authority will stop selling the plastic fare cards on ...

Despite being out of circulation for more than 20 years, New York subway tokens are listed for very little on resell sites ...

NEW YORK CITY (PIX11) — After more than 30 years as the form of payment for New York City’s mass transit system, the MetroCard will always be remembered not just for its vibrant look but for creating ...

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 — 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, ...

It's now $3 to ride the New York City subway ... and $3,000 for a MetroCard? The calendar's turn to 2026 meant the discontinuation of the decades-old NYC MetroCard, as the city moved to a strictly tap ...

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 ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. NYC MetroCards may have been laid to rest last week, but the flimsy plastic cards, used for decades to pay for public ...