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 ...

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.

The MetroCard — a blue-and-yellow pass that for more than three decades let riders into New York’s vast subway network with a swipe — will be retired on Wednesday, replaced by the already popular ...

Here are the most common reasons why an MTA train is running late, and the most delayed lines in the NYC subway system.

New York City’s transit system saw a dramatic day of developments, from violent incidents in the Bronx and Queens to early ...

NEW YORK (WABC) -- For a year and a half, a team of geneticists at Weill Cornell Medical College swabbed subway railings, turnstiles and benches to find out what kinds of microscopic "friends" were ...

There are 225 electrical substations in the subway system. Some of them have been around for close to 100 years.

A major investment in the future of New York City's subway system is taking shape. The MTA is replacing aging trains that have been running since the 1980s. More than 2,300 subway cars will be ...

NEW YORK (PIX11) — Overall major crime in the New York City subway system was down in 2025, and the NYPD said it reached its lowest level in 16 years, excluding the pandemic years. This decrease in ...

On a sweltering August afternoon or in the teeth of a winter storm, New York City subway riders make a quiet calculation: Is ...