MTA more ‘OMNY’ present

The MTA is rolling out its tap-and-go payment system at 48 more subway stations next month — including at Penn Station, officials announced Tuesday.

The swipe-free system, known as OMNY, lets riders pay their fares with a contactless credit card or mobile-phone wallet instead of swiping a MetroCard.

So far, only Staten Island buses and Lexington Avenue subway stations between Atlantic Avenue in Brooklyn and Grand Central Terminal in Manhattan are equipped with OMNY readers.

But that’s set to change big-time in December, the agency said. In addition to Penn Station, which serves six transit lines, OMNY readers will be installed at the Whitehall Street and South Ferry train stations in Manhattan, 86th Street-Bay Ridge in Brooklyn, Sutphin Boulevard-Archer Avenue in Queens and St. George and Tompkinsville on Staten Island.

The technology also will be installed at every No. 6 train stop between 51st and 125th streets in Manhattan, No. 4 train stops north of 125th Street and stops on the No. 1 train between Rector Street and Columbus Circle.

The MTA plans to announce additional OMNY-compatible stations each month — with the full roll-out expected to wrap up next fall, according to MTA Chief Revenue Officer Al Putre.

The entire city bus system will have the technology by December 2020, Putre said, followed by the Long Island Rail Road and MetroNorth in 2021.

MetroCards are good until July 2023.