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, more than ...

The MetroCard isn’t dead yet, but some New Yorkers are already in mourning. Hundreds of heartbroken visitors flocked to a Brooklyn museum to pay their respects to the transit payment system ahead of ...

Zabar’s is keeping the crumbling MetroCard alive. Thousands of sugar-cookie-loving straphangers are swarming the iconic Upper West Side grocery store to get their hands on an edible version of the ...

The MetroCard, an iconic piece of plastic utilized by countless New Yorkers to access the city's mass transit system for just over three decades, meets its demise on Dec. 31 at the age of 32. The ...

The MetroCard will soon become an antique after three decades of service, transforming before New Yorkers’ very eyes from an everyday straphanger totem into a relic of subway history. In honor of the ...

Forbes contributors publish independent expert analyses and insights. Melissa is a writer based in Brooklyn. New York’s Metrocard is about to join the subway token as a transit relic from the past.

BROOKLYN (WABC) -- Juan Carlos Pinto is an artist who has been working for a dozen years in New York, and he has an unusual way of bringing his artwork to life. "I try to portray people who give you ...