Elevator To FiDi Subway Seen By Some As Terror Threat: Report

FINANCIAL DISTRICT, NY – An elevator linking a Financial District street to the subway station below has caused a bitter fight between disabled commuters, who need it to get the access to trains that they're legally entitled to, and some neighbors who deem it a terror threat, the New York Times reports.

Disabled riders and advocates claim the two elevators, which would costs $20 million and provide access to the J and Z line at the Broad Street station, would vastly improve access to the city's subway system, The Times reported.

The elevators are planned by Madison Equities, which would build them in exchange for permission from the city to increase the size of a mixed use structure it's working on at 45 Broad St., the report said. That project is in the pubic comment stage – and getting strong resistance, The Times said.

Some residents of nearby 15 Broad St. claim the elevator makes their neighborhood more dangerous.

"The idea that people can then ride in on the subway with a bomb or whatever and come straight up in an elevator is awful to me," one opponent told The Times.

Read the full New York Times article here.

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