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 ...

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 ...

An escalator in a Midtown subway station nearly turned into a human meat grinder Monday morning. Lyana Fernández, 45, was exiting the station on 53rd St. at Fifth Ave. station via an escalator ...

A nightmare-inducing subway escalator wreck in Midtown last year was caused by the MTA's habit of skipping out on preventative maintenance inspections, according to a new report. On Tuesday ...

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 ...

has three of the ten most failure-prone subway escalators in Manhattan, according to the MTA’s most recent quarterly report on elevator and escalator performance. “I’m from Nepal ...

Two escalators at the Columbus Circle subway stop in Manhattan have been out of service for almost a year and likely won't reopen until the end of 2025. The 59th Street-Columbus Circle station is ...

The M.T.A. shut down the escalators at one of New York City’s steepest subway stations, and the outage is set to last until February. “This is just not acceptable,” one rider said.

One more word on subway elevators and escalators: They’re not only for the severely disabled. For example, I have asthma. I can climb one or two flights of stairs in a subway station leading to ...

The woman who was brutally kicked down a New York subway escalator has revealed what exactly she said to prompt the viscous attack: "Say excuse me." The 30-year-old student mom-of-one, speaking to ...

Extended security and bodycam video released Tuesday shows Chicago police shooting an unarmed short-order cook at the foot of a subway escalator and then again with his back turned to officers ...