Driving down the same new york city highway after forty-six years creates a quiet kind of time travel. The route is familiar, but the details shift in ways that reveal how the city has grown, aged, and rebuilt … Driving down the same new york city highway after forty-six years creates a quiet kind of time travel.

Now, more than three decades later, the gold-hued fare card and its notoriously finicky magnetic strip are following the token into retirement. New yorkers gathered in washington square park tuesday to share their appreciation for the metrocard. The transit payment method officially goes out of service after new year’s eve. History of new york city (1978â€present) new york city has seen a cycle of modest boom and a bust in the 1980s, a major boom in the 1990s, and mixed prospects since then. This period has seen …

This period has seen …