MTA to install barriers to combat subway surfing

Ride inside, stay alive. In an ongoing effort to thwart subway surfing, the MTA announced Tuesday that barriers are being ...
amNewYork on MSN

amNY ‘The Third Rail’: Talking with 7 train riders about the NYC Mayor’s Race and more

Stand clear of the closing doors as amNewYork takes an electrifying ride with New Yorkers on our subway lines to find out what issues mean the most to New Yorkers. This week’s episode of The Third ...
Brooklyn Paper

Holiday Nostalgia subway rides return to New York City next month

The New York Transit Museum and the MTA are bringing back their cheerful annual tradition of Holiday Nostalgia Rides next ...
The New York Times

It Will Soon Cost More to Ride the Subway and Bus in New York

The fare increase to $3, up from $2.90, will take effect in January, after the city’s transit system ends sales of the MetroCard. Other fares and tolls will also rise. By Stefanos Chen Transit leaders ...
The New YorkerOpinion

The Allure—and the Policing—of Subway Surfing

Mayor Eric Adams’s administration has wrapped an expansion of invasive surveillance in the apolitical packaging of saving ...

MTA introduces new NYC subway surfing barriers on 7 line. Here's why the agency believes it will work.

CBS News New York got an exclusive first look Tuesday at a subtle new deterrent meant to stop people from climbing on top of ...

MTA expands use of barriers to stop NYC subway surfers — but doubtful riders make ‘Chuck E. Cheese’ comparison

A pilot project involving the barriers began more than a year ago on two cars and was recently expanded to a full train set, ...

2 teens dead in possible subway surfing incident in Brooklyn, police sources say

Two teenagers were found dead in what New York City police are investigating as a possible subway surfing incident, sources tell CBS News New York. Transit workers at the Marcy Avenue station in ...