The money room, in New York City Transit Authority parlance, refers to a formerly secret location that handled cash collected in the system and recycled tokens formerly used throughout the automated fare collection system.
The money room, and a cash-carrying work train called the "money train" have been featured in several moving pictures. The old facility, located in downtown Brooklyn, has been decommissioned. This old facility had a direct connection to the subway system, allowing the money train to dock and drop off collected cash and pick up bags of tokens for distribution to token booths throughout the system. The Money Room was also where blank MetroCards were encoded on the High Throughput Encoding Machine.
The functions of the money room have been moved to a "consolidated revenue facility", located in Maspeth, Queens. This new location serves all of the different constituent transportation agencies, not just the subway system. It processes the cash received at bridge and tunnel facilities also. It is not subway-accessible, so cash and MetroCards are today distributed via specialized armored trucks.