JUST IN: NYC will suspend overnight subway service from 1 a.m. to 5 a.m. beginning May 6 for overnight cleaning, officials say
New York City's subway system will close down in the overnight hours as the state combats the coronavirus crisis, Gov. Andrew Cuomo and Mayor Bill de Blasio announced Thursday.
The overnight shutdowns for the largely 24 hour a day, seven day a week system will begin on May 6, with trains being stopped for cleaning between 1 am and 5 a.m. every night, Cuomo said at his coronavirus briefing. The decision to close the country's largest subway system follows multiple published reports about a growing homeless population and poor sanitary conditions that had been growing for weeks.
“You now have more homeless people on fewer trains and you have fewer people to conduct outreach for the homeless people,” Cuomo said.Buses, vans, and for-hire vehicles will be used to transport essential workers during the hours the subways are shuttered, the governor said.
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