Celebrating New York City’s newest accessible transit stations

In April 1, Mott MacDonald joined New York City officials to celebrate the completion of accessibility improvements at two transit stations in Brooklyn: Metropolitan Avenue and Lorimer Street.

Left to right: Romit Gajjar, Amiri Robinson, Geoff Smith, Jeff Smith, and Andrew Gennaro.

Three new elevators were installed at each station, along with a total of eight new sets of stairs, new tactile strips on platform edges, new ADA (Americans with Disabilities Act compliant) boarding areas, new accessible fare equipment, new signage, and new public announcement systems.

With this opening at Metropolitan Av-Lorimer St ​​, 151 MTA subway stations are now accessible to everyone — seniors, parents with strollers, everyone. We’re knocking out these ADA accessibility projects at four or five times the pace of prior MTAs, and we’re not going to slow down.

Janno Lieber

MTA Chair and CEO

The New York Metropolitan Transportation Authority (MTA) has set a goal of making 95% of the city’s 472 subway stations accessible to people with disabilities by 2055.

MTA Construction & Development retained us in 2021 to provide program management and design compliance services for a design-build contractor installing elevators at eight stations throughout the city. Metropolitan Avenue and Lorimer Street are the last of the eight to be completed. The project reflects our commitment to accessible, inclusive, and sustainable transportation.

Upgrades to the eight stations were completed on these dates: