NEW YORK — To some, the prospect of adding new subway elevators not far from the World Trade Center is a godsend, a desperately needed portal for the disabled to a subway system that is among the ...

Dozens of advocates for accessibility in transit rallied outside MTA headquarters in Lower Manhattan on Monday as part of their ongoing push for better subway elevator maintenance. The protest, led by ...

MTA officials need to prioritize fixes to broken-down subway elevators — and New York’s Legislature needs to commit more money to the problem, disability advocates said Wednesday. “When we try to use ...

Subway elevators and escalators maintained by outside contractors are less reliable than those serviced by the MTA itself, a new study funds. The report, which surveyed accessibility at subway ...

New York Gov. Kathy Hochul’s indefinite pause on congestion pricing has prompted the MTA to halt its plans to install elevators at more than 20 subway stations, including one in Midtown where a mother ...

NEW YORK (WABC) -- There was a strong warning, but no ruling Tuesday in a class action lawsuit filed against the MTA over the lack of elevators in the subway system. The judge ruled to delay a ...

An MTA plan to reassign 19 elevator operators at stations in Washington Heights poses a safety risk to riders with disabilities, a new lawsuit argued on Thursday. The elevator operator jobs at four ...

Three new elevators opened at the 7th Avenue subway station in Park Slope on Tuesday, in a hard-won victory for the community. One of the elevators will take riders from the street to the station’s ...