#DidYouKnow the #MetroCard vending machine was designed to subtly teach riders how to use it? Color-coding of different parts of the machine signaled their functions: 🟩 = the place where money was inserted 🟨 = the area where MetroCards were dispensed. This Metropolitan Transportation Authority - MTA TV commercial from 2000, narrated by Mandy Patinkin, encouraged riders to purchase MetroCards from the transit system's first MVMs (MetroCard Vending Machines). Our new exhibit "FAREwell, MetroCard

As the MetroCard slips into history, New York artist Thomas McKean transforms this everyday relic into art. 💳 For decades, McKean has collected discarded MetroCards, reworking them into dense collages and sculptural compositions that mirror the city’s layered identity. 💳 His work has been exhibited at institutions including the New York Transit Museum and the Museum of the City of New York, where personal memory meets urban history. 💳 A small piece of plastic becomes a shared portrait of life