NYC subway fare jumpers easily beat anti-theft ‘fins’ as MTA spends $7.3M to bring program to nearly every station

Stand clear of the closing snorts! The MTA will dish out $7.3 million to expand its anti-fare evasion gadgets to nearly every ...

Hochul, NYPD, MTA leadership tout drop in subway crime amid recent high-profile violent incidents

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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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 ...
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Subway crime at lowest level in 16 years, ridership up nearly 8%, Hochul says

Ridership on the New York City subway is on the way up while crime is on the way down, Gov. Kathy Hochul announced Thursday.

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 ...
Time Out

Spikes and paddles are being added to basically every NYC subway station turnstile

According to documents published by the transit agency, the anti-hopping hardware has already been installed at 327 of the city’s 472 subway stations. Another 129 stations are slated to get the ...

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 ...

NYC's F and M subway lines swap in Manhattan and Queens starts. Here's how it works.

Riders in Manhattan and Queens are preparing for a change to the F and M subway lines that the transit agency hopes will ...

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.
Gothamist

Nearly every NYC subway station will get spikes, paddles to combat fare evasion

Nearly every subway turnstile in New York City will soon be fitted with metal shark-like fins and plastic paddles designed to ...
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NYC transit changes in 2026: Subways, buses, LIRR, Metro-North, tolls

Several changes are coming to New York City's public transportation in the new year. Here are all the updated rules coming to ...

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 ...