Rule-breaking riders are easily dropping to all fours to slip under turnstiles that the MTA equipped with new crescent-shaped ...

The MTA estimates it loses around $285 million a year to fare evasion in the subway system — due both to turnstile jumping ...

The vertical, metal “fins,” as they’re called, have ridges on the top that are meant to deter fare evaders from jumping over the turnstile. The 59th Street-Lexington Avenue subway station in ...

“Oh, so now I gotta jump over it? Okay I don’t give ... Placing his left hand on the metal spikes, the man jumped over the pole of the turnstile, clearing the gate and walking free to a ...

I do understand why they did it that way because it’s probably inexpensive for them,” a rider said. “It’s just adding a small ...

Several protesters were arrested Wednesday evening after they stormed into a Brooklyn subway station, jumping the turnstiles in fury over the killing of upstate prisoner Robert Brooks. Last month, ...

The MTA is trying something new to deter subway fare evaders just weeks after installing spikes on some turnstiles ... York's cameras still caught people jumping over. "They don't seem very ...

NEW YORK CITY - The MTA is trying to crack down on fare evasion in the NYC subway system by using "spikes" on the turnstile handrails. The goal is to deter straphangers who use the gate handrails for ...

The new spike features consist of metal sheets with sharp edges installed on guardrails between turnstiles that are ... hands on top of the spikes and jump over them — or simply duck underneath ...