What you should know
- All 472 subway stations in New York are now equipped with security cameras.
- The Metropolitan Transportation Authority (MTA) announced Monday that it had installed the last of thousands of cameras at the Broadway stop of the G line.
- Installation of the cameras has sped up over the past year after crime spiked on the metro system during the pandemic as passenger numbers dwindled.
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NEW YORK – All 472 subway stations in New York are now equipped with security cameras.
The Metropolitan Transportation Authority (MTA) announced Monday that it had installed the last of thousands of cameras at the Broadway stop of the G line.
Installation of the cameras has sped up over the past year after crime spiked on the metro system during the pandemic as passenger numbers dwindled. Two hundred stations have been equipped with cameras in the last year, according to the MTA.
The number of passengers on the subway fell more than 90 percent during the height of the pandemic and continues well below pre-pandemic levels. An MTA survey conducted in the spring found that crime and harassment were as big a concern as COVID-19 for commuters weighing whether to return to the subway, despite the presence of hundreds of additional city police deployed. at the stations.
Although crime has remained a problem, the MTA said that the increase in the number of cameras has helped increase arrests recently by more than 28 percent.
Some of the cameras broadcast in real time to the subway security center, while others record locally and can provide images that can be used in criminal investigations, according to the MTA.
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