Subway Cameras Useless in Catching City Hall Perv

A sample of a citywide map showing the 65 subway stations that will lose station agents next year under the MTA’s proposed budget.

Last week some creep exposed himself and grabbed a female rider in the City Hall R train station, which just so happens to be the same station frequented by noted lech Mike Bloomberg. (Just sayin'.) And like most other stations in the transit system, the City Hall station doesn't have security cameras. Or wait, actually it does have cameras, but the NYC Transit contractor who installed them did such a lousy job that they're useless! So yesterday Public Advocate Bill de Blasio trooped over to the station for a press conference to demand that state leaders fix over 2,000 broken security cameras and reverse layoffs for over 450 station agents.

The MTA's surveillance camera problem was underscored last month when a man stabbed three people on the No. 2 train, killing two, and escaped without getting caught on camera. (A suspect was arrested last week.) So far 70 stations out of 468 citywide are equipped with cameras trained on the turnstiles, and according to the Daily News, by June that number is expected to reach 100. Almost a quarter of the way there!

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By John Del Signore in News on April 6, 2010 3:10 PM

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cxb

So 70 out of 468 are working now?

ONLY 9 YEARS AFTER 9/11?

See what 9 years of "tough on terrorism" REPUBLICAN "LEADERSHIP" got us?

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whitecastlerock

It's about solar panels on rooftops. It's about taking on the MTA...

JacqueMehoff

Progress Not Politics.

theevilone

I'm waiting for cxb to weigh in as the voice of reason on the matter.

cxb

Well, this is scandalous on many levels, no?

And can someone please tell me how BLOOMBERG doesn't deserve the blame for this???

Mr."we care about security" not only doesn't have cameras underground BUT PAID FOR THEM????

Never forget: Bloomberg runs the MTA more than anyone AND he claimed he was going after them last year (only 8 years late, strangely enough).

Are you guys sure I'm exaggerating when I say Bloomberg is the worst politician in US history??

(I would hope his term limit super-scandal alone would've cured that. Did Bush and Cheney try to lift term limits when they were omnipotent? NOPE.)

theLtrain

Annnnnnnnnd here we go.

xgeyiph772

Amazing. City Hall itself is an armed fortress, yet right underneath women are getting molested and not one lousy camera. When is enough going to be enough with the MTA. When are we NYers gonna get together and march on City Hall and MTA HQ en masse and demand that something be done about lousy finances, pissy smelling stations and people getting stabbed and molested underground?