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NYC issues student metro cards from the school if you need to go more than half a mile: https://www.schools.nyc.gov/school-life/transportation/bus-eligibility

• staticassertion 6y ago
  Yeah, our schools would hand out green/gold metrocards, which were very coveted items (if you found an extra one on a bus that was a huge get). They'd only cover 3-6 trips, plus transfers, so it wasn't quite free, but it was often good enough.