DUMBO riders want a safer York Street station
"In case of fire or a bomb scare, the station is a corked bottle."
DUMBO residents and employees are renewing their efforts to get the MTA to build a second entrance at the York Street subway station through an in-person and online petition. The current layout of the station, they say, is not only inconvenient, but also hazardous.
“The situation there is terrible,” said Danny Pearlstein of Riders Alliance. “This is a good example of how the city is really changing around its transit system. The MTA has a situation there that is potentially dangerous and it’s certainly persistently problematic.
“It’s a similar situation to the fact that the subway is largely inaccessible to people who can’t use stairs, but because it’s the MTA, it’s a problem that has to be resolved over decades.”