Hochul, 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 ...
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You Can Now See 2,000-Year-Old Thermal Baths and Military Barracks Without Ever Leaving Rome’s New Subway Stations

Two recently opened stops by the Colosseum double as museums, showcasing the ancient artifacts and ruins unearthed during ...

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.

N.Y.C. Subway Crime Is Down, Hochul Says, Rebutting Trump Officials

Gov. Kathy Hochul said the state would spend another $77 million on police patrols in the subway, acknowledging that felony ...

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.

His Job Is to Make the Subway Accessible. His Own Life Fuels His Work.

Quemuel Arroyo, the New York transit system’s chief accessibility officer, has used a wheelchair for half his life. He ...
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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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NYPD and MTA say subway crime is down

New data from the NYPD and MTA says subway crime is down. In November, there were nearly 25% fewer crimes on the subways ...