Barclays Center has subway’s worst privately owned elevator
Moving between Brooklyn’s Barclays Center and its subway station can be a heavy lift for riders, saddled with what MTA stats show is the most frequently out-of-service privately owned elevator in the subway system.
That was clear Monday morning, when the elevator connecting the Atlantic Avenue-Barclays Center station to the arena’s plaza at street level was out of service, along with two escalators at the same location.
That elevator, at Brooklyn’s busiest station, functioned just 74.2% of the time in 2019, MTA records show, falling far beneath the 96.5% reliability standard aimed for by New York City Transit.