{"id":359009,"date":"2026-09-28T18:00:07","date_gmt":"2026-09-28T18:00:07","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/359009\/"},"modified":"2026-09-28T18:00:07","modified_gmt":"2026-09-28T18:00:07","slug":"news-12-connecticut-nyc-cuny-to-grant-700-students-free-unlimited-omny-cards","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/359009\/","title":{"rendered":"News 12 | Connecticut | Nyc Cuny To Grant 700 Students Free Unlimited Omny Cards"},"content":{"rendered":"<p data-rich-text-paragraph=\"true\">It will soon be more affordable for some college students to take mass transit to classes in New York City.<\/p>\n<p>The New York City Council and CUNY announced the launch of a new transit affordability program. The program will provide 700 students with free, unlimited OMNY cards.<\/p>\n<p>New York City secured $700,000 to pay for the cards in its 2027 budget.<\/p>\n<p>City officials offered the following details about which students are eligible:<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;These OMNY cards will be for students who need it the most. So those that are eligible for Pell grants, enrolled full-time and not receiving the support through other programs,&#8221; said NYC Council Speaker Julie Menin.<\/p>\n<p>City officials say 90% of CUNY students use public transportation to get to their classes, and the program will help make their commute more affordable.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"It will soon be more affordable for some college students to take mass transit to classes in New&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":359010,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[9,11,10],"class_list":["post-359009","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-new-york","tag-new-york","tag-new-york-headlines","tag-new-york-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/359009","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=359009"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/359009\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/359010"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=359009"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=359009"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=359009"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}