MTA sued over disabled access

THE FEDS sued the MTA and NYC Transit Authority on Tuesday for renovating a Bronx subway station without making it accessible to the disabled.

The Manhattan U.S. Attorney’s office joined a lawsuit from the Bronx Independent Living Services, backing its complaint that the Middletown Road station on the No. 6 line lacked elevators after it was closed for an expensive renovation.

“There is no justification for public entities to ignore the requirements of the (Americans With Disabilities Act) 28 years after its passage,” U.S. Attorney Geoffrey Berman said.

MTA officials claimed the 1990 disability law “grandfathered” existing stations, and that it would not have feasible to add an elevator at the site.