“The increases could be impacted by the continued recovery of certain industry sectors like restaurant, retail and hospitality as we have seen great reliance on transit for workers in these industries who live in the outer boroughs and Upper Manhattan,” said Deputy Comptroller Rahul Jain, who specializes in New York City issues. Researchers at the comptroller’s office didn’t have an exact reason for why these particular stations were busier than they were before the pandemic, though they noted that the stations further from Manhattan’s central business district were more likely to be serving riders that couldn’t work from home. Many of the stations also were carrying on strong ridership trends from earlier months, with 15 of the subway stations also seeing better than pre-pandemic ridership numbers in November. Ridership at Longwood Avenue, Bay Street and 145th Street was over 130 percent higher than in 2019 and it was 128 percent higher at 103rd Street/Corona Plaza. Some of the stations were not merely reestablishing their numbers, and were instead seeing huge increases. ![]() Per DiNapoli’s office, the stations that saw more December ridership compared to the more bustling pre-pandemic days were: The ridership recovery was found in all four boroughs with subway service, although the Manhattan stations that saw the boost were far from the borough’s core. Almost two dozen subway stations ended 2022 on a high note, with subway swipes and taps exceeding the numbers in the halcyon pre-pandemic days of 2019.Īccording to Comptroller Tom DiNapoli’s subway ridership dashboard - which tracks ridership by station and compares the numbers each month to the number of riders in February 2019 - there are 21 stations around the system that had more riders in December 2022 than in February 2019.
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