How to Buy & Use a New York MetroCard (step by step) for the NYC subway, bus, airtrain, etc

UPDATE:
How to pay using the OMNY readers (not the MetroCard):    • Paying for the New York Subway Using ...  
How to ride the SUBWAY:    • How to Ride the New York City Subway ...  
How to ride the BUSES:    • How to Ride the Bus in New York City ...  

Using the New York Subway? How about the NYC bus (MTA bus) or Roosevelt Island tram or the JFK Airport AirTrain? You can use your MTA MetroCard for all these along with other public transportation systems. Like the New York subway, buying, reloading and using the New York MetroCard has its own learning curve as well. In this video, we will talk about what exactly does the New York MetroCard pay for, how to buy and reload a MetroCard, and the phasing out of the MetroCard and moving on to using the OMNY (One Metro New York). We will also look at the user interface of the MTA MetroCard machines and guide you through the step-by-step process of buying and reloading your MetroCard.

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Questions we answered in this video:
What is the New York Metrocard?
How much does New York public transportation cost?
How do transfers work?
How to buy a New York Metrocard?
How to re-load a New York Metrocard?
What is OMNY and how will it affect the future of the Metrocard?

00:00 Intro
01:12 About the Metrocard
03:34 Fare
06:17 Transfers
07:28 Purchasing & Reloading
14:17 Future of the MetroCard

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VIDEO CREDIT:
Intro clip of subway train By Danilo Obradović from Pexels

PHOTO CREDITS:
Nassau Inter-County Express bus
By GK tramrunner - Own work, CC BY-SA 4.0, https://commons.wikimedia.org/w/index...
Modifications: Cut out and colorized

Bee-Line Bus
By AahdTahar at English Wikipedia, CC BY-SA 4.0, https://commons.wikimedia.org/w/index...
Modifications: Cut out and colorized

New York Bus (Q25 CNG bus outside Jamaica Center – Parsons/Archer)
By Tdorante10 - Own work, CC BY-SA 4.0, https://commons.wikimedia.org/w/index...
Modifications: Cut out and colorized

PATH train
By Trevor Logan. Fan Railer at English Wikipedia. Later version(s) were uploaded by Beao at English Wikipedia. - "Photos by Trevor Logan/www.ttmg.org"
https://commons.wikimedia.org/w/index...
Modifications: Cut out and colorized

AirTrain at JFK
By Simeon87 - Own work, Public Domain, https://commons.wikimedia.org/w/index...

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