An R32 car being built. The cars predated the advent of subway air conditioning, with which they were retrofitted in the 1980s. They’ve ran on lettered lines across the city, and in recent years ...

MTA car inspector Andy Liu inspects and repairs the door mechanisms on a R32 car at the 207th Street Train Yard Facility Thursday, Feb. 27, in Manhattan, New York.

The notoriously ancient R32 train cars, which were introduced in the 1960s and still run along the C line, will soon be a thing of the past. The New York Post reports that some of those cars will ...

The MTA is may replace some of the aging cars in the subway fleet. The agency’s transit and finance committees recommended a proposal Monday to buy 300 new subway cars to replace the old R32 and ...

The 600 cars initially ordered by the MTA were reportedly projected to remain in service for 35 years, but the R32 soldiered on, staying in regular passenger service into 2020, by which point they ...

The fleet will also let the MTA retire the aging R32 cars on the A and C lines that debuted in 1964. But there will be a downside. The open gangway means a free flow of problems commuters like to ...

As the MTA prepares to make its biggest one-time buy of new subway cars since the 1980s, the transit agency is looking for ways to lighten the load on the tracks. According to a new document, the MTA ...

MTA leaders recently hopped one iteration of the R211, a new, more spacious train that’s designed to speed up boarding and better accommodate disabled riders. Most notably, some of the new ...

The MTA says A/C line straphangers will get the first crack at the shiny new rides, as well as a look at what the MTA hopes is the future: Subway cars linked together by an open passageway, allowin… ...

Take a look at the MTA's new R211 subway cars, set to roll out onto the tracks of NYC in spring of this year! Menu Search. Log in Subscribe. Sign up Sign in Secrets of NYC; ...