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Incoming NYC Mayor Zohran Mamdani to be sworn in at abandoned subway stop on NYE - The private ceremony will take place at Old City Hall Station just before midnight
An OMNY card isn’t necessary to ride the New York City subway if you have a credit or debit card with a chip, or a digital wallet in your smartphone. However, a physical OMNY card is also available for purchase at vending machines in subway stations, as well as at local bodegas and pharmacies. Cash can be used to purchase and load an OMNY card.
The New York City transit system is retiring the MetroCard after more than 30 years. The gold-and-blue swipeable card was introduced in 1994 to replace the subway token, which had been used for half a century.
New fare gates at NYC's Broadway-Lafayette subway station cause delays and are criticized for being easy to evade.
New York City Mayor-elect Zohran Mamdani (D) will hold a private swearing-in ceremony late Wednesday night at an abandoned subway station built more than a century ago. “When Old City Hall Station first opened in 1904 — one of New York’s 28 original subway stations — it was a physical monument to a city
Zohran Mamdani will be sworn in as the 112th major of New York City some feet below City Hall at an abandoned Gilded Age subway station at a private ceremony.
A 27-year-old man shot himself in the chest in a restricted area of a buzzing Midtown subway station late Sunday — then told cops someone else pulled the trigger, authorities said.
The mayor-elect says he will be sworn in by NY Attorney General Letitia James at the Old City Hall subway station in Manhattan during a private ceremony.