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 ...

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 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 ...

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 ...

We have all been there. You come across a broken escalator on the subway and suddenly you’re climbing up a long staircase with a pack of grumbling New Yorkers. Some of the tweets have been ...

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 ...

According to Metropolitan Transportation Authority records, the escalators at the East Gun Hill Road subway stop in the Bronx was out at least 61 times in the first quarter of 2009. Residents say ...