Starting Saturday, 50,000 special edition Biggie MetroCards will only be available at four subway stations near his old Bedford-Stuyvesant neighborhood: Lafayette Avenue, both Clinton – Washington Ave. stations, and Atlantic Ave. – Barclays Center.
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MetroCards will be going the way of the mighty subway token in just a few years, but you still have some time to appreciate the thin plastic passes that have aided New Yorkers in navigating the transit system for the last 25 years. And if you have any affection built up for the magnetic stripe cards and/or know all the words to "" by heart, you won't want to miss out on the MTA's latest offering: special edition MetroCards featuring The Notorious B.I.G.
The cards will be made available starting this Saturday, May 21st, in honor of what would have been Biggie's 50th birthday. They will only be available at four subway stations near his old Bedford-Stuyvesant neighborhood: Lafayette Avenue, both Clinton – Washington Ave. stations, and Atlantic Ave. – Barclays Center.
An MTA spokesperson told Gothamist there will only be 50,000 commemorative Biggie MetroCards released at the four stations. They're going to be randomly loaded into the MetroCard vending machines and "customers are not guaranteed" to get one, so you may have to try your luck a few times to snag one. The MTA has had several very successful limited edition MetroCard promos like this over the years, including collaborations with and tributes to
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