The Trump administration is threatening to pull federal funding from New York City’s transit system if it doesn’t provide a plan to address crime. While New York transit officials point to publicly available statistics showing major crime on the subway system is trending down this year,

The Trump administration is threatening to withhold federal funding from the agency that runs the New York City subway if the Metropolitan Transportation Authority doesn’t comply with a request for information on transit crime.

There have been several high-profile and particularly brutal crimes on New York’s subway in recent years, including a woman getting set on fire, the killing of a homeless man, and a series of incidents in which people have been pushed in front of trains.

The phase out of the old vinyl swipe cards comes after the MTA's rollout of its tap-to-pay fare system faced years of delays.

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 iconic MetroCard, a staple of New York City’s public transit system for over 30 years, is set to be discontinued by the end of the year. According to NBC News, MTA Chair and CEO Janno Lieber dropped this big announcement,