Hochul, NYPD, MTA leadership tout drop in subway crime amid recent high-profile violent incidents

Gov. Kathy Hochul, the MTA and the NYPD say New York City's subway system is getting safer, despite a recent string of ...

The race to protect New York’s subway from extreme rainfall

As the planet warms, subway systems around the world have struggled to cope with floods far beyond what they were originally designed to handle.
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MTA to add spikes and paddles at most NYC subway stations to curb fare evasion

The MTA aims to bring the technology to 129 additional subway stations by January, adding to the 327 of the city’s 472 ...

MTA metalworkers close in on Governor’s goal: 100 more stations with platform barriers by year’s end

As part of the MTA’s push to install platform barriers in more than 100 stations across the City subway system, welders and ...
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Nearly every NYC subway station will get spikes, paddles to combat fare evasion

Nearly every subway turnstile in New York City will soon be fitted with metal shark-like fins and plastic paddles designed to ...
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New York City's potential first new train line in years will slash travel time between boroughs

A planned rapid transit line designed to connect Brooklyn and Queens in New York City will slash train travel times when it ...

MTA honcho boasts of anti-subway surfing effort ‘success’ — but death toll tells different story

MTA boss Janno Lieber celebrated the transit agency’s efforts to curb subway surfing Wednesday — but the annual death toll ...

NYC subway fare jumpers easily beat anti-theft ‘fins’ as MTA spends $7.3M to bring program to nearly every station

Straphangers doing the right thing say jumpers are easily bypassing the jagged metal “fins” that are designed to stop people from jumping or using the turnstile.
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Increase in platform barriers part of ongoing safety efforts in New York subways

NEW YORK — Platform barriers have now been installed at 115 subway stations, and installation of brighter LED lighting in all ...
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MTA to install spikes and paddles on turnstiles at all subway stations as barrier for fare evaders

NEW YORK (WABC) -- The MTA will install jagged metal partitions and plastic paddles on every subway turnstile in efforts to ...

With the MetroCard entering retirement, a New York Transit Museum exhibit pays homage to that valuable piece of plastic

After more than three decades of swipes, the MetroCard, a familiar piece of New York City history, is heading into retirement ...