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Mobile sales vehicles

Updated Sep 23, 2024

Customers are advised to check the schedule for updates.

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A large bus parked along a street in Manhattan. The bus is branded with blue and gold MTA colors.

Services offered at the mobile sales vehicles

  • Get help with a Reduced-Fare application
  • Transfer MetroCard balances (Full fare and Reduced-Fare)
  • Exchange a damaged Reduced-Fare MetroCard for a temporary replacement
  • Report a lost/stolen Reduced-Fare MetroCard
  • Ask our team about any MetroCard-related issues
  • Sign up for OMNY

Note: Sales buses and vans are not making credit card transactions. You can still buy a MetroCard using cash or transfer value from a Reduced-Fare MetroCard.

Schedules are subject to change, so check back before you visit. Please call 511 for specific dates.

Please note: Mobile Sales will not operate during the following days: New Year's Day, Martin Luther King Jr. Day, Presidents Day, Memorial Day, Juneteenth, Independence Day, Labor Day, Thanksgiving, Day After Thanksgiving, Christmas Eve, Christmas, and New Year’s Eve.

Schedule for Brooklyn

Location

Day

Time

Sheepshead Bay at 3520 Nostrand Ave (Between Avenue V & Avenue W)

1st Tuesday

10 a.m. – 12 p.m.

Starrett City at Pennsylvania Ave & Twin Pines Dr

1st & 3rd Tuesday

9:30 a.m. – 11:30 a.m.

Coney Island at Neptune Ave (Between West Fifth St & Sixth St)

1st Tuesday

1 p.m. – 3 p.m.

Flatlands at Kings Plaza Shopping Mall (Avenue U & Flatbush Ave)

1st & 3rd Tuesday

2 p.m. – 4 p.m.

Flatlands at 5827 Flatlands Avenue (E 58 St & E 59 St)

1st & 3rd Tuesday

12:30 p.m. –1:30 p.m.

Bensonhurst at 86 St & Bay Pkwy

2nd & 4th Friday

10 a.m. – 12 p.m.

Bay Ridge at 86 St & Fourth Ave

2nd & 4th Friday

1 p.m. – 3 p.m.

Schedule for The Bronx

Location

Day

Time

Riverdale at 235th Street and Johnson Avenue

1st Wednesday

9 a.m. – 11 a.m.

Woodlawn Heights at Woodlawn Heights Library

1st Wednesday

12 p.m. – 2 p.m.

Bartow Mall on Co-op City Blvd (Near GVS Eye Care Center)

1st & 3rd Thursday

10:30 a.m. – 3 p.m.

Metropolitan Avenue & Yankee Mall (in front of Macy's)

2nd Wednesday

10 a.m. – 2 p.m.

Knolls Crescent Mall (11-21 Knolls Crescent)

2nd & 4th Friday

10 a.m. – 12 p.m.

Fordham Plaza (3 Av between 188 and 189 Sts at E Fordham Rd)

2nd & 4th Friday

8 a.m. – 2 p.m.

East Bronx at 3602 E. Tremont Ave (Between Scott Pl & Sullivan Pl)

2nd Friday

1 p.m. – 3 p.m.

Riverdale at Skyview Shopping Center (Riverdale Ave between 256 St & 259 St)

3rd Wednesday

10:30 a.m. – 12:30 p.m.

Kingsbridge at 231 St & Broadway

3rd Wednesday

1:30 p.m. – 3:30 p.m.

East Bronx at 3033 Middletown Rd.

4th Friday

1 p.m. – 3 p.m.

Schedule for Manhattan

Location

Day

Time

East Side at 57 St & First Ave

1st & 3rd Tuesday

1 p.m. – 3 p.m.

Lenox Hill at 68 St & First Ave (Near Memorial Sloan Kettering)

1st & 3rd Tuesday

10 a.m. – 12 p.m.

Lower East Side at Catherine St & Madison St

1st Wednesday

10 a.m. – 12 p.m.

Upper East Side at 79 St & York Ave (On York between 78 St & 79 St)

1st & 3rd Wednesday

10 a.m. – 12 p.m.

Lower East Side at Grand St & Lewis St

1st Wednesday

1 p.m. – 3 p.m.

Lenox Hill at 72 St & York Ave (In front of Manning Nursing Home)

1st & 3rd Wednesday

1 p.m. – 3 p.m.

Turtle Bay at 47 St & Second Ave

1st Thursday

1 p.m. – 3 p.m.

Carnegie Hill at 92nd Street Y

1st Thursday

10 a.m. – 12 p.m.

Kips Bay at 28 St & Second Ave

1st Thursday

10 a.m. – 12 p.m.

East Harlem at 106 St & Second Ave

1st Thursday

1 p.m. – 3 p.m.

Upper West Side at 96 St & Broadway

1st & 3rd Friday

10 a.m. – 12 p.m.

Upper West Side at 86 St & Broadway

1st & 3rd Friday

1 p.m. – 3 p.m.

Yorkville at 86 St & Lexington Ave

2nd & 4th Tuesday

10 a.m. – 12 p.m.

Lenox Hill at 68 St & Lexington Ave

2nd & 4th Tuesday

1 p.m. – 3 p.m.

Harlem at the New York State Office Building (125 St & Seventh Ave)

2nd & 4th Wednesday

10 a.m. – 12 p.m.

Harlem at 135 St & Malcolm X Blvd

2nd & 4th Wednesday

1 p.m. – 3 p.m.

Murray Hill 23 St (Between First Ave & Second Ave) (Across the street from CVS)

2nd & 4th Thursday

10 a.m. – 12 p.m.

Hamilton Heights at 147 St & Adam Clayton Powell Jr. Blvd

2nd & 4th Thursday

10 a.m. – 12 p.m.

Chelsea at 23 St & Ninth Ave

2nd & 4th Thursday

1 p.m. – 3 p.m.

Washington Heights at 155 St & Amsterdam Ave

2nd & 4th Thursday

1 p.m. – 3 p.m.

Lower East Side at Grand St & Pitt St

1st & 3rd Monday

10 a.m. – 12 a.m.

East Village at 14 St & First Ave

3rd Monday

10 a.m. – 2 p.m.

East Village at 14 St (Between Avenue A & Avenue B)

1st & 3rd Monday

1 p.m. – 3 p.m.

Washington Heights at 168 St & Broadway (Broadway & Amsterdam Ave)

1st Monday

10 a.m. – 12 p.m.

Washington Heights at 181 St & Broadway (Broadway & Audubon Ave)

1st Monday

1 p.m. – 3 p.m.

Schedule for Queens

Location

Day

Time

Forest Hills at 71 Ave-Continental Ave & Queens Blvd

1st Friday

10 a.m. – 12 p.m.

Flushing at Main St & Roosevelt Ave (Facing Roosevelt Ave)

1st & 3rd Friday

8 a.m. – 3 p.m.

Rego Park at Mall (Marshalls) (Queens Blvd & 63 Rd)

1st Friday

1 p.m. – 3 p.m.

Sunnyside at 41-02 Queens Blvd

2nd & 4th Tuesday

10 a.m. – 12 p.m.

Maspeth at Grand Ave & 69 St

2nd & 4th Tuesday

1 p.m. – 3 p.m.

Windsor Park at 73 Ave & Bell Blvd

2nd & 4th Wednesday

10 a.m. – 12 p.m.

Union Turnpike (256th & 260th Streets)

2nd & 4th Wednesday

1 p.m. – 3 p.m.

Astoria at 31 St (Between Ditmars Blvd & 23 Ave)

2nd & 4th Monday

10 a.m. – 2:30 p.m.

Bay Terrace Shopping Center (Bell Blvd & 24 Ave)

2nd & 4th Monday

10 a.m. – 12 p.m.

Fresh Meadows Shopping Center (Horace Harding Expressway & 188 St)

2nd & 4th Monday

1 p.m. – 2:30 p.m.

Rochdale at Rochdale Village Senior Center

3rd Tuesday

10 a.m.-2 p.m.

Jamaica at Allen Community – Theodora G. Jackson Senior Center

3rd Thursday

10 a.m.-12 p.m.

Locust Manor at Robert Couche Senior Center

3rd Thursday

1 p.m. – 3 p.m.

Schedule for Staten Island

Location

When

Time

New Springville at Yukon Ave (Near Yukon Bus Depot)

2nd & 4th Tuesday

10 a.m. – 12 p.m.

Castleton Corners at Victory Blvd (Off Manor Rd)

2nd & 4th Tuesday

1 p.m. – 3 p.m.

New Dorp at Hylan Blvd & Tysens Lane

1st & 3rd Monday

10 a.m. – 12 p.m.

New Dorp at Hylan Plaza (Ebbitts St at Hylan Blvd)

1st & 3rd Monday

1 p.m. – 3 p.m.

Mobile sales vehicles also make stops in Westchester. View the mobile sales vehicle schedule for Westchester.

Some station booths are making Reduced-Fare transfers

Some station booths are also making Reduced-Fare MetroCard transactions. They are not making cash transactions. You can get help with a reduced-fare card at these locations:

The Bronx

  • 161 St-Yankee Stadium , Booth N203, 161 St and Grand Concourse
  • Fordham Rd , Booth R289, Fordham Rd and Jerome Av
  • Parkchester , Booth R417, Hugh J. Grant Circle and Westchester Av
  • Pelham Bay Park , Booth R423, Pelham Bay Park and Westchester Av

Brooklyn

  • Atlantic Av-Barclays Ctr , Booth R610, near the Manhattan-bound   and LIRR
  • Coney Island-Stillwell Av , Booth G1, at the Stillwell Av and Surf Av entrance
  • Crown Heights-Utica Av , Booth R626, at Eastern Parkway and Utica Av
  • Kings Hwy , Booth B24, between E 15 and 16 Sts
  • Myrtle-Wyckoff Avs , Booth H26, Gates Av and Wyckoff Av

Manhattan

  • 125 St , Booth R258, Lexington Av at E 125 St
  • 168 St , Booth N13, 168 St at St. Nicholas Av
  • 34 St-Penn Station , Booth R138, mezzanine at 7 Av and 33 St
  • 96 St , Booth R169, Broadway between W 95 and W 96 Sts
  • Fulton St , Booth N95, on the  line at the Broadway entrance
  • Times Sq-42 St , Booth R147, east side of 42 St and 7 Av and Booth R151, west side of 42 St and 7 Av

Queens

  • Flushing-Main St , Booth R533 at the Main St and Roosevelt Av entrance and Booth R534 at the entrance on Roosevelt Av between Union St and Main St
  • Jackson Heights-Roosevelt Av , Booth N324, at the entrance on 74 St and Broadway
  • Jamaica Center-Parsons/Archer , Booth N606, Parsons Blvd and Archer Av
  • Sutphin Blvd-Archer Av-JFK Airport , Booth N605, Sutphin Blvd and Archer Av

Staten Island

  • St. George