Bed-Stuy Subway Stop Had The Most Fare Evasion Arrests In NYC

BED-STUY, BROOKLYN — One Bed-Stuy subway stop saw more turnstile-jumping arrests in the last three months of 2022 than any other station in New York City, NYPD data show.

Of the 63 people arrested for fare evasion at the the Broadway Junction A/C subway stop between October and December, data show only two were white.

Sixty were Black or Hispanic, according to the data.

The 63 arrests put Broadway Junction at the top of the472 subway stations in New York City, according to police data.

The total surpasses the combined fare evasion arrests for all of the 151 subway stops in Manhattan.

The arrests came as elected officials ordered NYPD officers — and armed security guards — to flood subway stations around the city to boot crime-fighting efforts, as well as combating rider perceptions of an unruly underground. Part of that effort was to also crack down on fare evasion.

Subway crime dropped roughly 8 percent, and 18 percent so far this year, said NYPD Commissioner Keechant Sewell last week.

“Our fare evasion summonses are up as well,” she said.

The results were felt in Bed-Stuy, where more people were arrested for subway fare evasion than Manhattan and Queens — combined.

Out of the 109 people arrested for jumping subway turnstiles in Bed-Stuy in the last quarter of 2022, 88 were Black — exactly one arrest more than the total number of collars in Manhattan and Queens combined — again. Add in Hispanic arrests and the total comes to 103 arrests out of 109, or 94 percent.

Citywide, the racial disparities revealed in the data fared only a single percentage point better.

The numbers show that Black and Hispanic people accounted for 93 percent of arrests — a disparity first reported by AMNY.

Southeast Queens City Council Member Selvena Brooks-Powers said in a statement as Transportation Committee Chair that " these vast racial disparities in fare evasion enforcement are unacceptable."

"Arrests and summons do not help low-income New Yorkers pay fares," Brooks-Powers said.

In Bed-Stuy, only four white people were arrested for fare evasion according to the NYPD. Recent census data revealed that the historically Black neighborhood lost 22,000 Black residents and gained 30,000 white residents between 2010 and 2022.

After Broadway Junction, the next highest number of fare evasion arrests citywide was at the Atlantic Avenue L station in East New York with 21 arrests.