“Increasing ventilation and scrubbing the tunnel walls and floors to remove continually recycling debris may make stations safer for riders and transit workers. “Now that our results have identified key contributors to poor air quality in New York City’s underground subway stations, we have a better idea of where to improve conditions in the most contaminated areas of the transit system,” says study senior author Terry Gordon, Ph.D., a professor in NYC Langone Health’s Department of Medicine and the study’s senior author, said. Experts have stated that taking in more than the EPA’s daily limit can lead to lung and heart diseases, and an overall higher risk of death. Operated by the New York City Transit Authority under the Metropolitan Transportation Authority of New York, the New York City Subway is the busiest rapid transit system in the United States and the seventh busiest in the world, with 5.225 million daily riders. The study’s results showed that according to more than 100 air samples collected between February and March 2022, pollutant levels in all of the measured stations exceeded the daily exposure limit set by the United States Environmental Protection Agency. The level of pollutants on stations adjacent to the river had lower levels of harmful particles than others down the line in either direction. The New York City Subway System is the largest subway system in the world, with 468 train stations and 26 subway lines. The confirm the study’s findings, researchers measured the particle build-up on the B line, which instead of crossing the East River underground, crosses on a bridge. Take the train to Penn Station New York via five rail lines with simple connections in Newark or Secaucus Junction. The station’s proximity to river tunnels was the strongest factor in determining its pollution levels, followed by the station’s age. As trains pass by, these particles are kicked up and travel out of the river tunnels and into the nearby subway stations. ![]() ![]() Christopher Street PATH station was also ranked by the research as among the most polluted stations.Īccording to Luglio, stations located below rivers have worse ventilation compared to others, which results in more harmful particles being trapped below the surface and building up over time. ![]() The study showed eight of the 10 most polluted stations were river-tunnel stations, including Brooklyn stations at High Street, York Street, and Borough Hall and Manhattan stations like Fulton Street, Lexington Avenue-59th Street, and Lexington Avenue-53rd Street.
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