Hyperallergic

NYC’s Transit Museum Pays Homage to the MetroCard

An exhibition reminisces about the yellow icon’s 32-year reign as the MTA retires the payment method for good.
Brooklyn Daily Eagle

Virtual program at Transit Museum explores NY’s secret prototype subway

CITYWIDE — THE CITY’S SUBWAY SYSTEM HOLDS A SECRET DATING BACK WELL BEFORE ITS OFFICIAL OPENING ON OCT. 27, 1904, and a book released this fall unlocks the story. “New York’s Secret Subway: the ...
Untapped Cities

Last Chance to Catch NYC's Holiday Notalgia Train

All aboard! Sunday, December 28th, is your last chance to catch the Holiday Nostalgia Train in New York City. This annual tradition from the New York Transit Museum brings festively decorated 1930s ...

As the Fare Rises, the Subway Is in the Spotlight

The M.T.A. makes changes as Mayor Mamdani makes it clear that the subway and buses are crucial to New York’s future.
CNN

The end of the line: New York City’s iconic MetroCard is about to go out of service

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 ...