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NYC MTA to install security cameras on subway car fleet

September 21, 2022Ken Showers, Managing Editor

NEW YORK – This week New York Governor Kathy Hochul announced that the Metropolitan Transit Authority New York City Transit would be installing security cameras in new subway cars and its existing subway car fleet. The NYC MTA received a $2 million award from the Urban Area Security Initiative federal program that will fund the installation of 5,400 cameras on 2,700 subway cars (two per car). These cameras supplement the existing 10,00 cameras across 472 subway stations and a pilot program...

American Civil Liberties Union (ACLU), Daniel Schwarz, Janno Lieber, Kathy Hochul, Metropolitan Transit Authority, Patrick Warren, security cameras, Urban Area Security Initiative