A dozen subway stations are newly slated for accessibility enhancements, transit officers introduced Tuesday.
The stations, chosen in live performance with public suggestions surveys, span 4 boroughs.
“This is open government, this is good government,” MTA Chairperson Janno Lieber mentioned Tuesday at a press convention outdoors the Franklin Ave. – Medgar Evers Faculty cease on the No. 2, 3, 4 and 5 traces in Crown Heights — one of many stations on the record.
“We made a promise to the advocates, many of whom are here today, when we came to that historic agreement settling the longstanding litigation about ADA and the subways,” Lieber added. He was referencing the MTA’s 2022 settlement to make 95% of the town’s 472 subway stations accessible to riders in wheelchairs and different mobility units so as to settle a pair of lawsuits
“We are determined to deliver,” Lieber mentioned.
Along with Franklin Ave., elevators might be added on the adjoining Botanic Gardens cease on the Franklin Ave. Shuttle, the system’s oldest line. Brooklynites may also get elevators on the close by Grand Military Plaza station for the Nos. 2 and three trains, in addition to the 53rd St. station on the R.
Within the Bronx, the Woodlawn cease on the No. 4 line and the Eastchester – Dyer Ave. cease on the No. 5 will get elevators, as will the Fordham Rd. station on the B and D traces.
Queens riders will get elevators at two M and R prepare stations — Grand Ave. – Newtown and 63rd Drive – Rego Park.
Manhattanites will see new elevators put in at one hundred and ninetieth St. on the A prepare, and Cathedral Parkway – a hundred and tenth St. on the No. 1.
The elevator initiatives introduced Tuesday are nonetheless within the planning levels. Jamie Torres-Springer, head of MTA building and improvement, mentioned the initiatives can be bundled in keeping with subway line earlier than being contracted out, however had no agency timeline as to when that will start.
The MTA has budgeted for 60 new accessible subway stations in its 2025-2029 capital mission plan.
Initially Revealed: July 22, 2025 at 6:31 PM EDT
