Usage of OMNY, the MTA’s tap-to-pay system for subways and buses, is highest in the city’s gentrified neighborhoods even as uptake lags in areas of the city with older, less white, and lower-income residents, the transit agency revealed on Monday.
The subway station with the highest uptake of OMNY is Bedford Avenue on the L line, the nexus of hyper-gentrified Williamsburg in Brooklyn — with 68% of paying riders entering the system with an OMNY tap instead of a MetroCard swipe.
