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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.
Number of vehicles. 2,429 commuter rail cars. 6,418 subway cars. 61 SIR cars. 5,725 buses [1] The Metropolitan Transportation Authority ( MTA) is a public benefit corporation responsible for public transportation in the New York City metropolitan area of the U.S. state of New York.
The New York City Transit Authority (also known as NYCTA, the TA, [2] or simply Transit, [3] and branded as MTA New York City Transit) is a public-benefit corporation in the U.S. state of New York that operates public transportation in New York City. Part of the Metropolitan Transportation Authority, the busiest and largest transit system in ...
People and traffic travel along Sixth Avenue on February 25, 2022 in New York. (Erik Pendzich/Shutterstock) NEW YORK CITY — Traffic crashes killed 112 people across New York City during the ...
The Beach Pneumatic Transit was the first attempt to build an underground public transit system in New York City. It was developed by Alfred Ely Beach in 1869 as a demonstration subway line running on pneumatic power. The line had one stop in the basement of the Rogers Peet Building, near the old City Hall station, and a one-car shuttle running ...
Dozens Of MTA Workers Caught Driving Cars For Extra Cash - New York City, NY - Several bus and subway operators were fired or suspended after a probe found they violated MTA rules by...
The remaining closed stations and portions of stations are intact and are abandoned. The exception is the Court Street station: it is the site of the New York Transit Museum, a museum that documents the history of public transportation in New York City.
Noah's Lost Ark Animal Sanctuary (2003–2019) Ming was a tiger that was found living in an apartment in Harlem, New York City, in October 2003, when he was approximately three years old. Ming lived semi-openly with his owner, Antoine Yates, in a room of Yates' five-bedroom apartment on the fifth floor of a large public housing complex in Harlem.
The New York City Transit Police Department was a law enforcement agency in New York City that existed from 1953 (with the creation of the New York City Transit Authority) to 1995, and is currently part of the NYPD. The roots of this organization go back to 1936 when Mayor Fiorello H. La Guardia authorized the hiring of special patrolmen for ...
The Ninth Avenue derailment, on the Ninth Avenue Elevated in Manhattan on September 11, 1905, was the worst accident on the New York City elevated railways, resulting in 13 deaths and 48 serious injuries.