The MTA is taking steps to safe its subways — putting in alarms and checking IDs — as groups of minor vandals proceed to achieve entry to parked trains.
The identical day, {a photograph} of R142 subway automobiles within the Moshulu Yard appeared on an Instagram account that has additionally posted footage of different current break-ins and practice takeovers.
The Saturday intrusion got here days after a teen was collared whereas breaking into the cab of a No. 2 practice elsewhere within the Bronx, and a month after an apparently associated crew took an R practice on a joyride beneath Brooklyn.
Requested Wednesday what steps had been being taken to curb the incursions, Crichlow mentioned his staff was going past implementing worker IDs.
MTA President Demetrius Crichlow (Shawn Inglima for New York Every day Information)
“We put out a bulletin to all employees: challenge someone who doesn’t have their pass displayed,” Crichlow mentioned, however added that an alarm had been added to yard management towers.
“Our engineering team put together a quick-fix which essentially alerts the tower operator when there is an unauthorized move in the yard,” he mentioned.
The transit boss mentioned his crews had been additionally engaged on including extra locks to coach cabs, that are historically opened by a grasp key.
MTA chairman Janno Lieber Wednesday referred to as on the town’s felony justice system to take the problem extra severely.
“One of the people engaged in this had done it before — a week or two before,” Lieber mentioned. “The real issue we’ve got is most subway crime is committed by recidivists, by people who’ve done it much more than once or twice.”
Initially Revealed: February 26, 2025 at 6:54 PM EST
