AMNY Subway Tracker

Michael Harris and the Disabled Riders Coalition continue their protest over broken subway elevators – this time over one busted at 161st Street station in the Bronx. There’ll be a presser at the station at 3 p.m.

“The outage in the elevator (NYCT Control# 131) from the IND mezzanine to the street at the busy 161 st – River Avenue, which ranks #1 on the Coalition's "serial offender" list it is particularly significant, as it is the only accessible Bronx station on the B or D lines with an elevator, thus forcing a disabled rider to have to turn around and go back to Manhattan just to get out of the system – and that assumes that the elevator from the platform is working. If it isn't, a disabled rider is literally stranded on the platform.

On Sunday, the Coalition formally declared a citywide epidemic of subway elevator outages and today the outages continued to remain in the double digits. Only 52 out of the City's 468 subway stations have elevators.

Outages today remain in the double digits and include such major stations as Borough Hall (Bk), DeKalb Avenue (Bk), Stilwell Avenue (Bk), 161st Street – River Avenue (Bx), (Manhattan) 14th Street – Union Square (Manhattan), 34th Street – Herald Square (Manhattan), 125th Street at Lexington Avenue (Manhattan), 61st Street – Woodside (Qns), Main Street (Qns), and Queens Plaza (Qns).”