Two-thirds of the subway elevators had at least one breakdown last year in which passengers were trapped inside, The New York Times reported Monday. “This organization is very, very good at ...

The topic of elevators in the subway system has often been a sore spot for the disabled community. It most recently surfaced as a hot issue when the Prospect Avenue, 53rd Street and Bay Ridge ...

There are currently 391 elevators across the subway system, and at press time, 349 of them were working. MTA New York City Transit President Demetrius Crichlow pointed out that 97.6% of the ...

Flip through the plan, though, and one section leaps out: the 234-page spending program on subway stations ... to $110 million per station for elevators. This work is inarguably essential ...

Despite funding and fare hikes, many subway riders are finding continual problems with a majority of the city?s station elevators. The MTA says that since the early 1990?s, it has spent nearly $1 ...