New York City subway riders will no longer need physical MetroCards by the end of this year, ending decades of use for the ubiquitous yellow and blue pass.

The Metropolitan Transit Authority will stop selling and refilling those formerly-ubiquitous MetroCards by the end of the year in favor of the OMNY system, MTA Chair and CEO Janno Lieber told Crain’s New York Business Wednesday.

The Metropolitan Transportation Authority says it will stop selling and refilling MetroCards by the end of 2025. The cards, first introduced in 1994, have became something of a collector’s item amid the rise in popularity of the tap-and-go payment system.

Sean Duffy, the U.S. transportation secretary, demanded a long list of details about crime in the subway and on buses in New York.

U.S. Transportation Secretary Sean Duffy on Tuesday threatened to withhold federal transit funds from New York's Metropolitan Transportation Authority over crime and safety on the New York City subway system and other issues.

In a letter to MTA Chair Janno Lieber, U.S. Transportation Secretary Sean Duffy demanded a list of “actions and plans to reduce crime on its system,” including rates of assaults, fare evasion and train surfing in the subway.