The enforcement of subway fare evasion turned bloody on Sunday in a neighborhood where many people can’t afford basic needs, much less the cost to ride the train every day.

When compared to the start of the year, summons for fare evasion have increased by 16 percent, with four out of every five summonses made to people of color. Meanwhile, arrests for fare evasion have ...

The MTA, meanwhile, has stepped up efforts to curb fare evasion at emergency exit gates, and is increasingly relying on private security guards (who are unarmed) alongside NYPD officers to deter ...

4 shot after police open fire on knife-wielding subway fare evader, NYPD says. Two officers pursued a fare evasion suspect, then opened fire as he approached them, police said.

Fare evasion at one Queens subway station seems to be getting worse despite the MTA’s efforts to thwart the ongoing city-wide scourge. amNewYork revisited the Woodside-61st Street station on the ...

New York City Police fired shots in a Brooklyn subway station while pursuing a person they suspected of fare evasion, injuring the man along with an NYPD officer and two bystanders. Around 3 p.m ...

Fare evasion cost the MTA roughly $700 million in 2022 — including $315 million in bus fares, $285 million in subway fares, $46 million in bridge and tunnel tolls and $44 million in railroad fares.

The MTA loses $300 million to subway fare evasion each year, which MTA Chair Janno Lieber has called a “fundamental existential threat to our ability to provide first-class public transit.” ...

An unsanctioned poster on a New York City subway is warning riders that fare evasion could result in death; ... Instagram/nyc.tribe. The poster references a shooting that happened on September 15.