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IMPORTANT NOTICE: I will be moving from MS OfficeLive site to http://metrocardcentral.webs.com/ [Not here at ZOOMSHARE ] The MS Officelive hosting service is no longer being supported so unfortunately I will be moving to Webs.com. As always, all the latest Metrocard information, News, & updates will be available on the Webs.com site. The link to the Webs.com - Metrocard Central - site is http://metrocardcentral.webs.com/ .
Search NEW SITE to find just about any NY MTA Metrocard that's been produced since 1993. This site can be used as a quick reference site to easily find specific Metrocards that have been released since 1993. An extensive list of Metrocards is conventiently listed in "Release Year" order on this Web page. Also, make sure you monitor this site & check the "Latest News" page to get the most up-to-date information on upcoming Metrocards and Metrocard events. Also, if you'd like to contact me you can send an Email to METROCARD@ZOOMSHARE.COM and I will try to answer you as soon as I can.
NOTE: This site is in no way affiliated with any of the official New York Metropolitan Transportation Authority [MTA] web sites. To go to the official NY MTA web site click here.
The Metrocards are listed below with the newest years listed first [Newest back to oldest.]. The easiest way to seach & find a specific metrocard or the metrocards for a specific year is to simply scroll down on this Page until you find the metrocard or the release year for a specific group of cards. You can also use the EDIT drop down list on your search engines Menu Bar found at the top of the screen & select the "Find (on this page)" option which will allow you the ability to enter in a key word to search for.

This site is for METROCARD collectors who save & collect all the different types of advertising, Subway Safety, & special New York MTA subway & bus system metrocards that have been released since 1993. This is one of the most comprehensive & complete sites for the various Metrocards released to date. Below is almost a complete list identifying the different Metrocards used by the MTA & subway commuters from the beginning through to the present date. You can also click on any underlined Metrocard listing to see a photo of the card & additional information.
At the end of this list you will also find the SPECIAL ISSUE Metrocards category to cover the additional issues such as Reduced Fare, School System, Railroads, NYPD & others.
[NOTE: If you find missing or inaccurate information on this Web site please notify me & I will verify & quickly correct it. For those who contribute substantial information & help I will gladly list your Name &/or nickname for credit.].
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CONTRIBUTORS LIST :
A "BIG" thanks goes out to all those who contributed information to this site.
DJ [Hero] Moore: Thanks to Donald for being a Big help in closing up many of the gaps & providing a list of Safety Cards.
Dr. Metro: Has provided loads of information on the scarcer metrocard issues & has been incredibly generous in sending in some series issues I was unable to complete.
Big Bob: A special Thanks for helping to close the gaps on some of the rarer cards & providing additional information on the Safety cards & MTA issues.
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Enjoy exploring the site. I hope it helps you with collecting the numerous Metrocards.
METROCARDS
New York Transit Museum Set [3rd card released in 2012]:
Great gifts from the Transit Museum! - Authentic NYC Transit Token Cuff Links $90
MTA.info "Improving, Non-Stop" [Production: 1 million each card.];
1 - Can our buses go faster? You bet.
2 - Our apps are whiz kid certified.
3 - mta.info now has more info.
4 - A city is only as good as it's transit system.
5 - Improvements don't just happen.
6 - There's safety in numbers.
7 - Isn't it nice to know when your train will come
Wells Fargo [Production: 50,000]
SHOP 2 AVE - It's Worth It [Production: 2 million.]
Earth Day Metrocard [Production: 1 million.]
Take the train to the METS game
[HBO "Boaldwalk Empire" - Free $2 ride & plastic Metrocard holder] - Regular Safety Metrocard was in the holder.
MOMA - Talk to me [Production: 6 million.]
REUNITE 9/11 Memorial metrocard (Version 1)
REUNITE 9/11 Memorial metrocard (version 2) [Production: 8 million]
511 One MTA One Number [Production: 5 million]
The Weekender [Production: 5 million]
James Rizzi Metrocard [2011 version - Production: 2,000(UNCONFIRMED)]
New York Transit Museum Set:
Great gifts from the Transit Museum! - Toy Bus $10.95 Great gifts from the Transit Museum! - iPad Case $28
[Great gifts from the Transit Museum! - Authentic NYC Transit Token Cuff Links $90 (Released in 2012)]
Select bus service - M34 & 34A
2011 MTA Safety:
Stay alert on station platforms
AirTrain JFK Make The Connection CHASE - Get $100 from CHASE Train of Thought [Total series of 22 cards starts in 2009]; 18 – Will Rogers TRANSIT FACTS [Total series of 24 cards starts in 2009]; MTA Going your way - greener; SAFARI 7 - Safari7.org - The Safari 7 project is a self-guided tour of urban wildlife along the 7 subway line. Find out more about Safari 7 at http://safari7.org/home/ METS - Take the Train to the Mets Game – NEED CARD Staten Island Railway - Celebrating 150 Years since 1860 $4.50 2-ride metrocard PATH 2-Trip card JCPenney + select bus service 2009: [Dunkin Donuts - Free $2 ride & Dunkin Donuts sleeve] - Regular Safety Metrocard was in the DD sleeve Going Your Way - Greener; Train of Thought [Total series of 22 cards continues in 2010]; TRANSIT FACTS [Total series of 24 cards continues in 2010]; METS - Take the 7 Train to the Game METROPCS - Unlimited wireless voice and text. METROPCS - This semester, do the math. EASY PAY XPRESS #1 – EasyPay is the Easy Way EASY PAY XPRESS #2 – Choose Pay-Per-Ride or 30 Day Unlimited Ride OPTIMISM Metrocard - Art for Transit [Several slight variations] $2.25 Instructions New! Trip Planner Voice GIANTS - Take the Train to the Game 2009 Radio City Christmas Spectacular Proctology Clinic Please Offer A Seat Please Don't Hold The Doors 2009 MTA Safety;
17 – Thomas Aquinas, Summa Theologica
19 – Horace Greeley, The American Conflict
20 – E.W. Howe, Ventures in Common Sense
21 – Walt Whitman, The Real War Will Never Get in the Books
22 – Oscar Wilde, The Critic as Artist
23 – Ralph Waldo Emerson, Experience
24 – Mihri Khatun, Poetry's voice, Society's song
25 – Saint Augustine, Confessions
26 - Boethius (480-524) - Consolations of Philosophy
20 – Since New York’s subway system opened in 1904, fare media has included tickets, coins, tokens and the MetroCard. The token (in a variety of designs) lasted the longest-from June 1953 to April 2003in the subway and through December 2003 on buses.
21 – The highest subway station is Smith-9th Sts F G in Brooklyn, 88 feet above street level. The lowest station is 191 St 1 in Manhattan, 180 feet below street level.
22 – The M15 bus carried 17,594,489 people in 2008, more than twice the population of New York City.
23 – NYC Transit buses do not accept paper money because NYC Transit uses giant vacuum hoses to empty the fareboxes, a process that would shred bills.
24 – Subway trains traveled more than 360,000,000 miles in 2008 and made more than 8,300 trips on an average weekday.
1 - Follow in Our Footprints - Learn how you can use our carbon footprint to reduce yours at mta.info/sustainability.
2 - Nice Save - Every full bus keeps up to 30 cars off the road, dramatically cutting congestion on our roads and pollution in our air.
3 - Breathe Easy - By riding MTA NYC Transit, you are helping keep tons of pollution out of the air.
4 - Big City, Small Footprint! - Because New Yorkers use mass transit every day, they have a much smaller carbon footprint than the national average - about 75% smaller. Tansit Riders Save the Earth!
5 - A Very Convenient Truth: Transit Riders Save The Earth - Because New Yorkers like you use mass transit every day, we have a much smaller carbon footprint than the national average - about 75% smaller.
US Open metrocard & sleeve [Safety card in sleeve]
1 - Transit Riders Save the Earth! Public Transportation --
2 - Take a Bus! --
3 - Big City Small Footprint! --
4 - Take a Train! --
1 – William Shakespeare, Tempest
2 – Immanuel Kant, Akademische Ausgabe
3 – George Eliot, Middlemarch
4 – Samuel Eliot Morison, The Oxford History of the American People
5 – Matthew Arnold, Dover Beach
6 – Albert Einstein, What I Believe
7 – Herodotus, The Histories
8 –Chuang Tzu, The Complete Works of Chuang Tzu
9 –Charles Darwin, from a letter to Charles Lyell
10 – Abraham Lincoln, House Divided Speech, 1858
11 – Henri Poincare, Science and Hypothesis
12 – William Shakespeare , Hamlet, Act V, scene II
13 – John Donne, Song
14 – Franz Kafka, The Metamorphosis
15 – Friedrich Nietzsche, The Twilight of the Idols
16 – Arthur Schopenhauer, Studies in Pessimism
1 – With 6,400 subway cars, New York City Transit has the largest fleet in the world. NYC Transit also has more subway cars that the combined total of all other subway systems in the United States.
2 – New York City Transit carries an average of 5 million subway customers on a weekday – more than 1.5 billion in a year. This is the largest passenger count in North America and the biggest ridership figure for the New York subway system in 55 years.
3 – Using buses and subways in New York City keeps 400 million pounds of soot, carbon monoxide, hydrocarbons and other toxic substances out of the air yearly.
4 – New York City Transit has nearly 900 hybrid-electric buses, more than any other public transit system in the world.
5 – NYC Transit buses carried 738 million people in 2007. That’s more than the next two biggest bus systems – Los Angeles and Chicago-combined.
6 – NYC Transit was the first public agency in the world to have a bus fleet 100 percent accessible to customers who use wheelchairs.
7 - NYC Transit has 468 subway stations, only 35 fewer than the combined total of all other American subway systems.
8 – In 2000, NYC Transit was the first public transportation system in the USA to convert all its buses to ultra low sulfur diesel fuel.
9 – The A is the longest line in the subway system, spanning 31 miles from 207th St in Manhattan to Far Rockaway, Queens.
10 – The New York subway system carries 1.5 billion people annually. That’s the equivalent of moving the population of the earth every 4 ½ years.
11 – The first female subway conductor began work on December 28, 1917 during WWI.
12 – The 1976 Bicentennial Transit exhibit proved so popular that it became the New York Transit Museum, the largest museum in the United States devoted to urban public transportation history.
13 – Subway ridership in 2008 was 1.6 billion, the highest since 1950.
14 – During WWII, New York City’s public rail system used light bulbs painted half black. “Dim-out” bulbs reduced the visibility of elevated rail cars as a precaution against enemy aerial attacks.
15 – The 6 subway line, by itself, is the third largest subway system in the United States, carrying 700,000 customers on a weekday.
16 - If NYC laid all its subway tracks end-to-end, they would reach from New York City to Chicago.
17 – The Jackie Gleason Bus Depot in Brooklyn is the first and only bus facility named for a performer. Gleason played bus operator Ralph Kramden in “The Honeymooners” TV series.
18 – NYC Transit’s new hybrid electric bus, ECO Saver IV, reduces noise and air pollution, because it not only has fewer engine parts than standard diesel buses, but can run on just battery power 20 percent of the time.
19 – On July 19, 1967, the first 10 air-conditioned subway cars went into service on the F line. Today, the entire subway fleet (nearly 6,500 carsd) has air conditioning.
Subway Emergency Instructions [English] E0913B --
Subway Emergency Instructions [Spanish] --
Surf the train and this ride could be your last. Always ride inside. E0810B
Changing cars on a moving train may get you fined, injured, or worse. T0810
Avoid a gap mishap. M0810
If you drop something, don't go on the tracks. T0905
If you se something, say something. M0771
Carry on with caution. E0914B
Get a grip and avoid a slip. M0800
[New Years Eve: CIROC Ultra Premium Vodka - Free $2.25 ride & CIROC Vodka sleeve] - Regular $2.25 One ride Metrocard was in the sleeve.
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