New Subway Elevators at Yankee Stadium Slump With Outages For Months

Just months after the MTA installed five new elevators at the 161st Street-Yankee Stadium subway station, several were sidelined during baseball season, transit authority data shows — and one lift is expected to remain out of service until winter 2027 because of power problems. The elevators at the busiest station in The Bronx began returning to action in April after a replacement project that began in November 2024, but have since been in working order at rates far below the 95% systemwide average. “I take this station every day and they’re always messed up, man,” John Ortiz, 64, said as he cut through the station with the help of a walker. “And it took them almost two years to fix these elevators.” The City Reporter’s analysis of MTA elevator-availability data for a transit hub that served more than 6.1 million riders on the B, D and 4 lines last year found that the lifts slid from being in service 99% of the time in April to 56% in August, the latest date for which statisti