PHOTOS: New Subway Cars, Stations are Coming, Gov. Cuomo Announces

New York City, NY — Take heart commuters, your constantly increasing Metrocard fare is finally getting you something. New subway cars are on the way, along with refurbishments to 31 stations.

The first three stations to be redone are in Park Slope, Sunset Park and Bay Ridge in Brooklyn.

Gov. Andrew Cuomo made the announcement Monday morning from the New York Transit Museum in Brooklyn.

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The bidding will open up in late July for the addition of 1,025 new subway cars.

Of those, 750 will feature an "open gangway" design, which allows for more movement and less crowding. Essentially, these cars won't have the usual restricted car-by-car doors, but will instead be open throughout the length of the train. It also means no more tickets for illegally passing between cars.

The doors to the subway car will also be eight inches wider, allowing for easier entrance and exit.

The subway cars will feature a host of modern amenities, according to Cuomo. The cars will include WiFi, USB chargers, digital boards and "illuminated door opening alerts." The cars will also include security cameras inside.

Additionally — as was announced earlier this year — 31 stations will get new lighting, clearer station signage, count down clocks, better cellular service, WiFi, new art and other amenities.

The first three stations to get the overhaul will be Prospect Avenue on the R line, 53rd Street on the R line and Bay Ridge Avenue on the R line.

The MTA will start soliciting bids for those stations later this week, while it will open bids for the other 31 stations over the next 12 months.

The agency also announced the stations being refurbished won't be closed for more than six months.

The MTA is a state-run agency, hence the announcement by Cuomo.

“The governor gave the MTA a mandate to implement new, world-class designs as quickly as possible for all new subway cars and that’s what you’re seeing today — innovation making the lives and commutes of all New Yorkers easier,” MTA Chairman and CEO Thomas F. Prendergast said in a statement. “Coupled with new methods for redeveloping our stations at the governor’s direction, customers will see us get in, get done and return new and improved stations to them in the most efficient way possible.”

Take a look at the new renderings for the subway cars and stations:

All Photos Courtesy of the MTA