Kids in New York keep dying while ‘subway surfing’ on top of trains. Can they be stopped?
New York City is trying to deter dangerous “subway surfing” through education programs, but some transportation advocates and ...
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To fund NYC subway fixes, MTA must undo decades of distrust
MTA Chair Janno Lieber is heading to Albany on Thursday to ask lawmakers to fund the largest construction program in the ...
NYC’s most rat-infested subway stops are both based in one neighborhood — but some riders not surprised: ‘You’ll see one’
Harlem has more vermin scurrying through its subway stations than any other neighborhood in the five boroughs, new data shows.
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Support for police on NYC subways cuts across party and racial lines, poll says
Nearly three-quarters of New York state residents support Gov. Kathy Hochul’s plan to put two NYPD officers on every ...
The Economist3d
New York City commits to involuntary commitment
This is part of the city’s overnight homeless-outreach programme, Partnership Assistance for Transit Homelessness ( PATH ).
MTA pitches $68 billion capital plan in Albany amid concerns over federal funding
MTA boss Janno Lieber went before state lawmakers Thursday, defending the transit agency’s $68 billion capital budget in an ...
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Kids in New York keep dying while ‘subway surfing’ on top of trains. Can they be stopped?
More than 300,000 New York City school children use the subway to get to and from school ... and won’t be deployed on lines popular for surfing anytime soon.
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A Daring Rescue Under a Subway Train Leads to an Emotional Reunion
But he certainly had not anticipated being greeted at the door by the commissioner of the New York Fire Department and a long line of firefighters ... climbed beneath a subway train to rescue ...