Plastic MetroCards that used to cost $1 are now being sold on eBay for thousands of dollars, after the card was discontinued.

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 ...

When the MetroCard replaced the New York City subway token in 1994, the swipeable plastic card infused much-needed modernity ...

On Wednesday, the MTA retired the MetroCard, ending the era of the iconic fare payment method that replaced tokens in 1994.

A search for MetroCards using eBay's official research tool, Terapeak, returned more than 3,700 active listings with an ...

The Metropolitan Transportation Authority (MTA) discontinued the use of MetroCards for access to the city's public transit ...

Something like a flimsy yellow credit card, the MetroCard has bound together nearly everyone in the city—real-estate moguls ...

Two Times journalists joined Miles Taylor, a YouTuber and transport enthusiast, on a daylong journey across New York City ...

There are dozens of other listings within the same $100 price range popping up — and nostalgic transit riders are eagerly ...

There were few tears at a funeral for the MetroCard, which included chants of “swipe, swipe” and an urn. To anyone who ...

Fellow collagist Nina Boesch estimates she has around 90,000 MetroCards stashed in her West Village studio — enough to last ...

For artist Thomas McKean, the New York City MetroCard was anything but mundane. He used cut-up bits of the cards to create hundreds of sculptures and collages, and still has a stockpile to work with.