MTA officials need to prioritize fixes to broken-down subway elevators — and New York’s Legislature needs to commit more money to the problem, disability advocates said Wednesday. “When we try to use ...
Dozens of advocates for accessibility in transit rallied outside MTA headquarters in Lower Manhattan on Monday as part of their ongoing push for better subway elevator maintenance. The protest, led by ...
NEW YORK — To some, the prospect of adding new subway elevators not far from the World Trade Center is a godsend, a desperately needed portal for the disabled to a subway system that is among the ...
Persistent and sustained elevator outages in New York City subway stations have made the transit system largely inaccessible to straphangers with disabilities, according to class action suits filed in ...
An MTA plan to reassign elevator operators at upper Manhattan subway stations raises issues of public safety, labor unions and elected officials said at a rally Thursday. The MTA employees who work ...
New York Gov. Kathy Hochul’s indefinite pause on congestion pricing has prompted the MTA to halt its plans to install elevators at more than 20 subway stations, including one in Midtown where a mother ...
More elevators and ramps are being built in the subway system, but the MTA needs more money to make the system even more accessible, says a report issued Tuesday. “Sustaining this momentum is ...
Commuters in the Bronx’s Longwood and Mott Haven neighborhoods will have an easier time using the subway with help from new elevators and other improvements at the No. 6 station at 149th St. The ...