An OMNY card isn’t necessary to ride the New York City subway if you have a credit or debit card with a chip, or a digital ...

Beginning in 2026, New York City subways will transition away from MetroCards to OMNY cards. Here's how it will work.

The MetroCard — a blue-and-yellow pass that for more than three decades let riders into New York’s vast subway network with a ...

A familiar ritual for millions of New Yorkers is quietly ending, ushering in a new daily experience beneath the city streets.

The humble MetroCard may have outlasted its useful life, but in its day it was revolutionary, says Jodi Shapiro, curator at ...

Dec. 31 will be the last day that anyone can buy or refill a MetroCard in New York City as transit authorities are working to ...

The future is OMNY, the contactless fare system for the MTA. That means you have to use Apple Pay on your smartphone or Apple ...

The New York City subway is set to switch from the MetroCard to OMNY, a contactless payment system, at the start of the new ...

The MTA rolls out the New York Transit Museum’s Holiday Nostalgia trains along two New York City subway lines on Sundays in December. The eight Independent Subway System cars remained on the MTA’s ...

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 ...