{"id":374442,"date":"2026-10-16T02:41:08","date_gmt":"2026-10-16T02:41:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/374442\/"},"modified":"2026-10-16T02:41:08","modified_gmt":"2026-10-16T02:41:08","slug":"congestion-pricing-dollars-at-work-mta-says-new-bryant-park-subway-station-elevators-and-other-upgrades-paid-for-with-manhattan-tolls","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/374442\/","title":{"rendered":"Congestion pricing dollars at work: MTA says new Bryant Park subway station elevators and other upgrades paid for with Manhattan tolls"},"content":{"rendered":"

Four new elevators are coming to bustling 42 St-Bryant Park\/5 Av subway station \u2014 and the MTA wants straphangers to know it is because of congestion pricing<\/a>.<\/p>\n

Agency leaders and elected officials gathered at the B, D, F, M, and 7 train station on Thursday to break ground on the project, which will make it fully accessible under the Americans with Disabilities Act (ADA) and includes a slew of other upgrades. The work is funded by revenue raised from the state\u2019s congestion pricing program \u2014 a $9 base toll drivers must pay in order to enter Manhattan in their vehicles below 60th Street.<\/p>\n

\u201cNew Yorkers have already been feeling the benefits of less traffic, safer streets, and cleaner air thanks to congestion pricing; now we take the benefits to the next level as we unleash billions in investment to improve our transit system,\u201d Gov. Kathy Hochul said in a statement.<\/p>\n

MTA Chair and CEO Janno Lieber said they will be making that fact clear to riders through signage posted throughout the construction process that will say the coming benefits are \u201cmade possible by congestion pricing.\u201d<\/p>\n

\u201cWe\u2019re kicking off our biggest project yet enabled by congestion pricing,\u201d Lieber said. \u201cFolks are going to see signs that say \u2018A better Bryant Park \u2026 made possible by congestion pricing.\u2019 We want to make sure that everybody understands the benefits of the revenues that are coming from congestion pricing.\u201d<\/p>\n

The signage is the latest example of how Hochul and the MTA have sought to highlight the benefits<\/a> of congestion pricing after it faced years of setbacks, including an ongoing attempt<\/a> by President Trump\u2019s administration to shut the program down.<\/p>\n

The four new elevators include three mezzanine-to-platform lifts inside the 42 St-Bryant Park B, D, F, and M train portion of the station and a fourth that goes between the mezzanine and street level of the 5 Av 7 train area. One of the three mezzanine-to-platform elevators will connect a pedestrian pathway that links to the Times Square Shuttle to the northbound 42 St-Bryant Park platform.<\/p>\n

The four new elevators will add to the station\u2019s three existing lifts, all of which go between the mezzanine and street level. Even with those three elevators, the station had not been fully compliant because none of them went between the platforms and the mezzanine.<\/p>\n

The MTA board approved the multi-million contrac<\/a>t for the accessibility project late last year.\n<\/p>\n

MTA President of Construction and Development Jamie Torres-Springer said the reason it took so long to finish the accessability project was because the agency had struggled to find the space to put all of the equipment that supports elevator operations. He said they found the space on a decommissioned track that became available after the MTA converted the 42 St Shuttle from four tracks to two in 2021.<\/p>\n

\u201cIt\u2019s the kind of engineering feat that we\u2019re pulling off across all our 472 stations to make them ADA accessible at a record-breaking pace,\u201d Torres-Springer said.<\/p>\n

The agency will also build a new accessible passage between the 42 St-Bryant Park and 5 Av platforms, which will allow those with mobility issues to move between the two portions of the station without having to traverse any stairs. Currently, riders must go up and down two sets of stairs to get from one area to another.<\/p>\n

In addition to the accessibility upgrades, the MTA will also outfit the station with reconstructed platforms, modern ADA-compliant fare gates and men\u2019s and women\u2019s bathrooms, upgraded staircases, and state-of-good-repair work inside the 5 Av portion of the station.<\/p>\n

Along with 42 St-Bryant Park\/5 Av, the MTA is using congestion pricing revenue to fund ADA upgrades at five other stations: the Kingsbridge Rd 4,\u00a0167 St B and D,\u00a0Gates Av J, Briarwood F, and\u00a0Parsons Blvd F stations. <\/p>\n

Those are among at least 23 stations that are set to receive accessibility enhancements funded by $2 billion of the $15 billion in congestion pricing revenue going toward the agency\u2019s current capital plan.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Four new elevators are coming to bustling 42 St-Bryant Park\/5 Av subway station \u2014 and the MTA wants…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":374443,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[35],"tags":[137792,30678,102312,748,3932,3935,75,84,83,78623,31847,9,24,63],"class_list":["post-374442","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-manhattan","tag-42-st-bryant-park-5-av","tag-ada","tag-americans-with-disabilities-act","tag-congestion-pricing","tag-gov-kathy-hochul","tag-jamie-torres-springer","tag-manhattan","tag-manhattan-headlines","tag-manhattan-news","tag-mta-capital-plan-2025-2029","tag-mta-chair-and-ceo-janno-lieber","tag-new-york","tag-new-york-city","tag-nyc"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/374442","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=374442"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/374442\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/374443"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=374442"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=374442"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=374442"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}