The agency confirmed this week it was pulling six out of the seven ballyhooed R211 rail cars out of service due to equipment problems -- just months after the high-tech trains were unveiled.

The new R211 cars, with bright LED headlights and a stainless steel skin, rolled into the 207th St. station in upper Manhattan a little after 1:30 p.m.

R211’s will be rolling out on the A line at a rate of two trains per month, according to MTA officials. An open-gangway version of the R211 is in testing, and an example should be in service by ...

The first standard R211 subway cars entered service on the A (8 Avenue express) Line in March 2023. The open gangway configuration R211 cars were unveiled at the Coney Island yard in Brooklyn, New ...

The new R211 trains — which will run on the A and C lines, as well as on the Staten Island Railway — are replacing ones that have been in service since the mid-1970s.

MTA officials didn’t comment directly on the video. “During routine operations of R211 subway cars in service, New York City Transit crews discovered a faulty gear box in some of the cars ...

It’s all on screens in the R211, the latest development in a digitization push that started in 2017. The screens cycle between MTA maps, notices, and PSAs and advertising.

Subway rides are about to get a bit more futuristic. At the Coney Island Yard in Brooklyn this morning, the Metropolitan Transportation Authority (MTA) unveiled one of two new R211 model subway ...

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, ...

The Metropolitan Transportation Authority sidelined Staten Island’s newest train cars just one month after their debut — and it’s not clear when exactly they’ll be back on the tracks. Five ...