New York City subway riders will no longer need physical MetroCards by the end of this year, ending decades of use for the ubiquitous yellow and blue pass.

OMNY, short for One Metro New York, emerged as a way to modernize payment methods and reduce operating costs, and is already being used by more than 75 percent of riders, the transit authority said.

The tap-and-go payment method is replacing the MetroCard. Straphangers cite some glitches, and a watchdog says the design ...

The Metropolitan Transit Authority will stop selling and refilling those formerly-ubiquitous MetroCards by the end of the year in favor of the OMNY system, MTA Chair and CEO Janno Lieber told ...

However, there are potential complications for Metro that the New York subway doesn’t have to deal with. New York subway riders only have to tap a card as they enter a station, but Metrorail ...

New York City will let riders “tap and pay” with a “contactless” credit card from Mastercard and Visa, and certain mobile devices to ride the subway.