New York City’s sprawling subway system never closes, and it has the highest number of stations of any city in the world. Sign Up Receive occasional updates and special offers for The New York Times's products and services. The authority believes it would cost about $10 billion to bring the remainder of the system in line with the federal law. “If everything was working 100 percent, and had elevators, my disability would be transparent. But because of the lack of elevators, my disability really comes to the forefront in terms of what activities I can engage in, in the city.

Source: New York Times April 25, 2017 23:32 UTC