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The escalators at the MTA’s newest subway stations are going down! Transit officials have struggled to keep the 32 escalators at 72nd Street, 86th Street and 96th Street in working order since ...
Subway elevators and escalators maintained by outside contractors are less reliable than those serviced by the MTA itself, a new study funds. The report, which surveyed accessibility at subway ...
Subway riders at some of the busiest stations have to deal with broken escalators and elevators – in some cases for years – because private firms aren’t fixing them as required, a new report ...
At a subway station deep beneath the streets of Manhattan, the escalators were not working — again. So Eric Garment trudged up several flights of stairs. “I counted and I think it was ...
Bronx straphangers say they are frequently inconvenienced by faulty elevators and escalators at local subway stops. According to Metropolitan Transportation Authority records, the escalators at ...
Straphangers at a Midtown subway station were seconds away from potential injury when the top steps of an escalator shredded during rush hour — leaving one passenger “shaking.” The mangled ...
Wednesday was at least the second time that escalators were not fully functioning ... I already had to walk around from one part of the subway station to another due to the construction.
MANHATTAN, N.Y. (PIX11) — Subway riders pay a lot of attention to the elevators and escalators at their stations. They also notice when there’s a lack of accessibility. So folks who live ...