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With many parts of the system approaching or exceeding 100 years of age, general deterioration could be seen in many subway stations. By 2017, only 65% of weekday trains reached their destinations on time, the lowest rate since a transit crisis in the 1970s.
On January 4, 2024, a New York City Subway train derailed causing at least 26 people, mostly passengers, to suffer minor injuries.
Three days in September, including Wednesday, have seen subway ridership hit levels not seen since March 2020, when the coronavirus was first detected in the city, according to MTA data.
NEW YORK CITY — Mechanical, medical and signal problems caused nine subway lines to run with delays Wednesday morning, according to the MTA.
The subway recorded eight murders in 2021, the highest annual total in 25 years; by October 2022, nine people had been murdered that year alone. The subway system has been the target of some mass attacks, though such attacks are relatively rare.
The main delay for the morning involved service between Manhattan and Brooklyn on the A/C/E/F lines, which was listed as “severely disrupted” as of 8:06 a.m., according to the MTA.
Signal problems at 47th-50th Street-Rockefeller Center caused delays for F trains headed north and M trains going in both directions, officials said at 6:39 a.m.
The subway cars in the worst condition were the R10s. The subway line with the worst signals was the IRT Broadway–Seventh Avenue Line, so the signals were upgraded in the 1980s. The BMT Sea Beach Line had the worst track; its infrastructure had not been upgraded since its opening in 1915.
NEW YORK CITY — Track debris, signal problems and some random person walking the tracks caused multiple subway delays on eight train lines Monday morning, according to the MTA.
' " That year, YouTube videos of rats on subway tracks and in a subway car in New York City went viral, as did videos of rats in a Dunkin' Donuts in Manhattan. In June 2014, residents at adjacent Upper West Side buildings started a rent strike, demanding an end to the rat problem.