MTAs $26.7M Yankee Stadium elevators racked up 41 outages, stranded riders

The Metropolitan Transportation Authority’s multi-million dollar overhaul of five elevators at the Yankee Stadium subway station has left riders contending with unreliable service — including one lift that hasn’t been working for months.The station’s new elevators logged 41 outages between April through September, including 35 unplanned interruptions, according to an analysis of MTA records.The elevators were purchased as a part of a 14-elevator buy for $74.8 million, and the MTA spent about $26.7 million for the five elevators at the Yankee Stadium stop.“It’s really outrageous,” Marie McCullough, an elderly woman who lives near the 161 Street station told The Post on Monday.“Many times I have not shopped downtown, even though I may have wanted to get some things because of the fact I knew the elevators weren’t working.”McCullough, who recently recovered from a torn meniscus, relies on the elevators for transporting her groceries.“I don’t want to have to ride up to 167 or 170 (streets) to get the elevator there because I’d still have to get downtown.

I live down here.I don’t live up there,” McCullough explained.The elevator replacement project at the Yankee Stadium subway station began in November 2024 and all five elevators were supposed to be in service around April of this year, according to MTA documents.The MTA said three of the elevators are now working — and praised themselves despite barely half of the new elevators working.“Five elevators that were installed before Aaron Boone even played for the Yankees were not performing well and needed to be replaced,” an MTA spokesperson said.Boone, who is now the Yankees manager, played part of the 2003 season in New York.“Three of them are now back in full service.

You could call it a rebuilding season,” the spokesperson added.In the meantime, subway riders are forced to face detours and stairs.A young mother waited Monday beside a broken elevator with a suitcase and a larg...