Canal St station, 3/2010.
New York City stopped letting people use subway tokens in 2003. Some of the slots still remain, but they’re covered up so you can’t use them anymore. Nevertheless, every time we swipe our way through a turnstile in this town we are reminded of what we’ve lost. Please, if you will: a moment of peace.
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In the piece I wrote for Vanishing New York, I mentioned how I used to make necklaces out of the now-obsolete penultimate NYC subway tokens. My friend Abi (@abigailjewelry) is actually using the last subway tokens to make earrings. Metrocards don’t make for great jewelry. However, they do work well as toothpicks.
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