2000

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Subway series 2000 was held on July 7,8,9 2000. This time around all 4 metrocards feature only players from Mets team. Set was sponsored by MasterCard. Each card has a similar design and features one of the leading Mets players: Mike Piazza, Mike Hampton, Rey Ordonez, Armando Benitez. There was also published matching leaflet.

Smartray.com set

Another Internet age company SmartRay.com which ceased to exist. Company suppose to deliver info to cell phones. It was just a little bit ahead of time. Set contains of 2 cards.

One card says: Stock quotes and news headlines beamed to your mobile phone or pager free from smartray.com. And it shows screen of mobile phone with fake news: Backstreet Boys announce IPO* — analysts say will outperform Yahoo.

Another card says: Real time sports headlines and scores beamed to your mobile phone or pager free from smartray.com. And it shows mobile phone screen with fake news: Yankees 4 Mets 8 Yankees say: “We let Mets win out of pity”.

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Net2phone set

Net2phone set contains of 3 metrocards advertising phone calls routed through the Internet. Each card has similar design and the difference if the phone number you need to call to connect to specific country.

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Continental airlines sponsored all together 12 metrocards over the span of 3 years. All cards have dark blue background with stylized globe on the left and golden coloured name of the company: Continental Airlines. Each card has been sold separately and has many different expiration dates.

International Conference 2000 of Institute of Internal Auditors has been held in New York and this card was sponsored and given out to participants of this conference. It is very rare card since many were lost or taken back by owner to their respective cities and countries. This card is beautiful, it features collage of images of New York city: skyline, World Trade Center, Empire State Building, Chrysler building, Statue of Liberty and Federal reserve Building. World Trade Center appears 3 times on different parts of the card. There is a rumour that circulation is just about 2,00000-22-international-2000.

Make a difference – teach New York metrocard was sponsored by Board of Education of city of New York and features stylized images of 4 kids of main races of the city.

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Earth Day 2000

First time MTA has decided to commemorate Earth Day. Since then every year MTA organizes Earth Day celebration at Grand Central Station.

This card features art work by Rafal Olbinski.

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Another telecommunication company advertising local service and offering free caller id for 3 months. This time it is Sprint communications.

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EAB bank: Range

Another advertisement from EAB bank, this time around fro the branch in Harlem at intersection of 125th Str. and Adam Clayton Powell Jr. Blvd.

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Kenneth Cole Reaction set contains of 2 metrocards. Each card was sold separately.

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