Turnstile-Jumping Likely To Cost You At This Brooklyn Station: Report

BROOKLYN, NY — A police crackdown on fare evasion resulted in one Brooklyn station garnering the third-highest amount of tickets, according to a new analysis by Gothamist.com.

According to the report, New York City police issued more than 100,000 fare evasion tickets last year.

At the Livonia Avenue L station, 50 tickets are issued per 100,000 riders, the analysis shows — among the highest in the city, and six times more than average.

And, the analysis shows police made arrests at the Atlantic Avenue L stop in Brownsville 40 times more than average — cuffing 64 people from January through September 2023, when many stations saw no arrests or just one.

Fare jumping arrests have more than doubled since Mayor Eric Adams took office in 2022, Gothamist reported, and tickets for fare jumping have jumped up 160 percent.

The Far Rockaway-Mott Avenue (52 per 100,000) and Aqueduct Racetrack in Ozone Park (66 per 100,000) stations in Queens were the other stations where police issued the most tickets, according to the analysis.

Click here to read the full report on Gothamist.