Norberto Briceño on Instagram: "Kinda Interesting Things #238: The Story of the Metrocard On December 31, 2025, the MTA will stop selling and distributing the MetroCard, closing the chapter on more than three decades of plastic swipes that carried millions of New Yorkers through their commutes. Before the MetroCard, the city moved on metal and exact change — with tokens and coins feeding turnstiles one by one. In the 1980s, the MTA began imagining something new: a magnetic-stripe card designed

New York Transit Museum on Instagram: "👋 Goodbye #MetroCard! After 32 years, MetroCard sales will end on December 31. The swipe-to-ride system familiar to all will be fully replaced by OMNY's contactless tap-and-go payment system. This #NYTMCollection television ad from 1997 introduced MetroCard Gold, which allowed transfers between buses and subways. Before then, MetroCards were blue — not yellow — and transfers were not available. This post begins our MetroCard countdown! Each Wednesday throu