{"id":612,"date":"2025-03-20T17:21:31","date_gmt":"2025-03-20T17:21:31","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/thecapitalharbor.com\/index.php\/2025\/03\/20\/first-the-token-now-the-swipe-nycs-subway-system-to-stop-selling-metrocards\/"},"modified":"2025-03-20T17:21:31","modified_gmt":"2025-03-20T17:21:31","slug":"first-the-token-now-the-swipe-nycs-subway-system-to-stop-selling-metrocards","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/thecapitalharbor.com\/index.php\/2025\/03\/20\/first-the-token-now-the-swipe-nycs-subway-system-to-stop-selling-metrocards\/","title":{"rendered":"First the token, now the swipe: NYC\u2019s subway system to stop selling MetroCards"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class='body-graf'>The Metropolitan Transit Authority will stop selling and refilling those formerly-ubiquitous MetroCards by the end of the year in favor of the&nbsp;OMNY system, MTA Chair and CEO Janno Lieber told&nbsp;Crain\u2019s New York Business&nbsp;Wednesday.<\/p>\n<p class='body-graf'>MetroCards have been around since 1994, but now seem destined to go the way of the subway token, which stopped being used in 2003.<\/p>\n<div id='taboolaReadMoreBelow'><\/div>\n<p class='body-graf'>MTA officials previously said they planned to say goodbye to MetroCards in 2027, but now have provided an estimated date when they will stop selling and filling the cards, and that\u2019s at the end of 2025.<\/p>\n<p class='body-graf'>OMNY\u2019s popular tap-and-go system has been around since 2019 and the service includes the ability to tap your phone to pay to purchase an&nbsp;OMNY tap card&nbsp;that passengers can buy and reload.<\/p>\n<p class='endmark body-graf'>Commuters will still be able to use their existing MetroCards with whatever funds they have on them until sometime in 2027.<\/p>\n<\/p>\n<div>This post appeared first on NBC NEWS<\/div>\n<p><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Metropolitan Transit Authority will stop selling and refilling those formerly-ubiquitous MetroCards by the end&hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":613,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-612","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-business"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/thecapitalharbor.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/612","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/thecapitalharbor.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/thecapitalharbor.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thecapitalharbor.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thecapitalharbor.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=612"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/thecapitalharbor.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/612\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thecapitalharbor.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/613"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/thecapitalharbor.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=612"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thecapitalharbor.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=612"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thecapitalharbor.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=612"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}