Unlimited Ride fares cannot be used more than once every 18 minutes. This is designed to prevent fraudulent use of the card by multiple people. Subway station agents cannot override the minute rule— you must wait for the time to expire. MetroCards can also be purchased from a MetroCard vending machine or staffed sales booths in New York City subway stations.
To pay with an Android phone, simply unlock the handset and place it over the reader to initiate the transaction. Your email address will not be published. Skip to content. Sorry, there aren't any single-day or weekend passes.
If you think you are going to make more than 12 individual trips a very likely scenario for tourists staying more than two days , buying a 7-Day Unlimited Ride card will be cheaper than paying 12 times. The time window does not activate until you swipe the card for the very first time at a turnstile to enter the system.
For instance, you can buy the card on January 17, activate it on April 1, and it will expire at midnight between April 7 and April 8. Unlimited cards always expire exactly at midnight on the 7th or 30th day , regardless of the time you activated the card on the first day. For instance, if you activate a 7-Day Unlimited Ride card on Monday morning, it will expire Sunday night at midnight. If you activate the card Monday evening at pm, it still expires Sunday night at midnight.
As a result, you effectively get to use it only for 6 days and 30 minutes. In that case, you are better off paying for a single ride using the Pay-Per-Ride card and then activating the Unlimited Ride card the next morning. Unlimited Ride cards cannot be shared by two people. In fact, there is a roughly minute delay between each swipe to prevent the card from being used by more than one person.
As noted before, on the back of every MetroCard you'll find a printed physical expiration date. Do not confuse the printed physical card expiration date with the paid expiration of the Unlimited Ride time window.
A card can carry "time ", "value", or both. In other words, you can add a dollar value to an Unlimited Ride card or buy time to an existing Pay-Per-Ride card. When this happens, the time portion always takes precedence when you swipe it at a turnstile it will activate the time window as necessary.
After the time portion of the card has expired, it will then and only then start draining the value of your card. This also implies that you cannot use this card with multiple people as a second swipe on the card will be denied as "Just used" despite the card carrying monetary value in addition. Lastly, MetroCards can be refilled. During rush hour runs every minutes. In between the subway runs every minutes.
At night until Midnight every minutes. From Midnight to AM the subway runs every 20 minutes. You can simply read the subway map and create your own route but if you like it a little bit more convenient, download one of the many apps for the Subway in New York City that helps you to navigate around. They also show you delays. Other than that we mostly use Google Maps , because the app not only shows you the subway but also the busses, bike lanes and routes if you want to walk the distance to your final destination.
You can even use your unlimited passes. Generally, there is a difference between express trains and local trains. Express trains, in contrast to local trains that stop at every station of a particular line, do not stop at every station. Subway lines are marked so that it is easy to tell which type of train services the line: a letter or number in a circle designates a local train.
If the letter or number is is in a diamond, you are looking at an express train. The subway map also shows which stations are serviced by what type of train.
Stations serviced by express trains are indicated by a white dot with a black rim. Regular stations are designated by only a black dot.
From the example on the left, you can see that the th Street Station and 86th Street Station are serviced by express trains. You can also see that underneath every station, there are numbers or letters — these indicate which lines stop at that particular station.
In our example, Line 6 stops at the following stations: 86 St. Lines 4 and 5 only stop at 86 St. It is totally legal to perform on platforms and subway stations. If you are looking for the best subway stops to catch a great show, check these out:. Enter a station and connect for one hour of free service as you travel from station-to-station.
Taking the subway in NYC can be a workout itself with all the stairs you have to climb to get to your final destination. Here you can check the accessible subway stations in New York City. Calling New York City home is still pretty surreal.
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