{"id":325131,"date":"2026-08-19T18:26:07","date_gmt":"2026-08-19T18:26:07","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/325131\/"},"modified":"2026-08-19T18:26:07","modified_gmt":"2026-08-19T18:26:07","slug":"metrocard-vending-machines-are-up-for-auction","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/325131\/","title":{"rendered":"Metrocard Vending Machines are up for auction"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>A piece of New York City history is going to the highest bidder. The colorful metal MetroCard Vending Machines were first installed in 1999, and revolutionized how people took the subway.<\/p>\n<p>Now that the subway is a tap-and-go system, New York City Transit is auctioning off a limited number of these 1,050-pound machines, as well as the smaller, 210-pound Express Machines.<\/p>\n<p>Officials are not saying how many are up for grabs, but Wednesday is the last day to submit a bid.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cI would probably bid a bit on this,\u201d Stanton Gilbertson said. \u201cFor a man cave idea, probably 30 bucks, 50 bucks. It\u2019s a cool collector\u2019s item. I feel like we are running out of those nostalgic things where it is actually physical. Now everything is tap these days.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>There is an <a href=\"https:\/\/forms.cloud.microsoft\/pages\/responsepage.aspx?id=gHPAeZjMvUGAawrpJViPZsTYVxq1BpBBmduOS-NFRTpUMUk5VjNFOFc4UEQ4R0I2TEFUT0hHMUg2NC4u&amp;route=shorturl\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">online form to fill out<\/a>, and the minimum bid is $1,500.<\/p>\n<p>Before submitting a bid, you have to confirm you can pick it up within 10 days, confirm you can submit a payment on the day you are notified, and complete all the required forms.<\/p>\n<p>Based on those NY1 talked with Wednesday, the machines may not prove as popular at auction as when they pushed out MetroCards.<\/p>\n<p>Some New Yorkers said the machines should be in a museum, while others questioned why they would want something that takes up so much space.<\/p>\n<p>The electronic and payment processing components have been removed from the machines.<\/p>\n<p>There are also accessories being sold separately and available for purchase, including a roll of 750 single-use MetroCards for $250, the audio braille sign for MetroCard Express Machines for $100 and a circuit board assembly for $275.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"A piece of New York City history is going to the highest bidder. The colorful metal MetroCard Vending&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":325132,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[38],"tags":[25,1084,128,3691,9,24,12,63,129,131,130,27,296,142,200],"class_list":["post-325131","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-the-bronx","tag-app-top-stories","tag-app-traffic-transit","tag-bronx","tag-emma-barnett","tag-new-york","tag-new-york-city","tag-news","tag-nyc","tag-the-bronx","tag-the-bronx-headlines","tag-the-bronx-news","tag-top-stories","tag-traffic-and-transit","tag-transit","tag-vod"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/325131","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=325131"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/325131\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/325132"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=325131"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=325131"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=325131"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}