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Zohran Mamdani will be officially sworn in as the 112 th major of New York City on Jan. 1 some feet below City Hall at an abandoned Gilded Age subway station during a private midnight ceremony. “When ...

Beginning in 2026, New York City subways will transition away from MetroCards to OMNY cards or payments with physical and digital debit and credit cards. The yellow card that riders swipe to enter the ...

Drones are in the sky, the MTA is warning daredevils about the risks and social media companies say they’re cooperating but kids keep dying trying to surf the subways. The deaths of Zemfira Mukhtarov, ...

The MetroCard, a scuffed yellow rectangle that lived in wallets, coat pockets and the bottoms of tote bags for more than three decades, is officially reaching the end of the line. New York’s ...

NYPD data shows the subway is the safest it’s been in 16 years. “Four years ago, when I took office, this vital circulatory system, as I mentioned, was under a triple threat. Safety was a major ...

MTA boss Janno Lieber celebrated the transit agency’s efforts to curb subway surfing Wednesday — but the annual death toll shows the deadly stunt is as big a problem as ever. Five people have died ...

The head of the MTA warned Wednesday that tech giant Meta needs to “get on the stick” about taking down social media videos of subway-surfing daredevils riding on top of trains. With five deaths so ...

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A teenager was injured while subway surfing in Brooklyn on Thursday, cops said. The 14-year-old boy fell from the top of a southbound B train as it sped past the Ave. J stop near. E. 16th St. in ...