Midwood straphangers with disabilities will soon be stuck as the Metropolitan Transportation Authority prepares to close the #Flatbush Ave #Brooklyn #College subway’s elevator until next year — leaving the station’s steep staircase as the only option to board the 2 and 5 trains.
Work to replace the elevator, situated at the southern point of the busy intersection of Flatbush and Nostrand avenues, will start on July 7, and is expected to continue until the first quarter of 2022.
The lift, which was installed in 1997 to comply with the federal government’s Americans with Disabilities Act, has reached the end of its “useful lifespan” — even outlasting a hydraulic elevator’s standard of 17.5 years, an MTA spokesperson told Brooklyn Paper.
It will be upgraded to include modernized equipment, including a new elevator cab, and new equipment in the cab, shaft, and pit. The MTA will also renovate the elevator’s machine room, spruce up its surveillance and fire alarm systems, and upgrade its “LiftNet remote monitoring equipment” which will allow the authority to be more responsive to elevator failures.
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