5 cents: A local/express initiative, 2010
Next Project →What do you do with those odd amounts that are left when you buy a few rides at a time and get some “bonus” amount that doesn’t even equal a whole number of rides?
Why is it so easy to get your deposit back from a bottle or can return, but you can’t get your own money off a Metrocard?
The MTA might have a $800 million deficit but we wanted to help riders close their own budget gap—five cents at a time.
We rode the 4 train from end to end (Woodlawn to Crown Heights) to offer five cents cash for empty or almost-empty “returnable containers.” We collected Metrocards, cans and data, crunched some numbers and shared our findings in an installation at a Lower Manhattan Cultural Council Swing Space project curated by Katarina Jerinic and Naomi Miller.
