Three NYC Subway Stations Will Get Platform Doors: Report

NEW YORK CITY — Long-awaited platform doors will be tested at three New York City subway stations, according to a new report.

An MTA safety door pilot program is expected to launch in the "coming months," Gothamist first reported.

Doors will be in installed at the following stations, the report states:

• Times Square 7 train station in Manhattan
• Third Avenue L train in Manhattan
• Sutphin Boulevard and Archer Avenue E train in Queens

The program was welcomed by officials and advocates who pushed for subway platform doors — which would be designed to protect straphangers from falling or being pushed onto tracks — after the 2022 shoving death of Michelle Go.

"We've been calling for NYC to catch up to the rest of the world and install platform screen doors in the subway," tweeted Mark Levine, Manhattan's borough president. "Would be a major win for safety."

MTA officials, however, had been lukewarm toward subway platform doors. Doing so would carry a hefty price tag and many stations can't accommodate such doors, they argued.

But as a Patch analysis found, a 2019 MTA study on platform doors showed many stations with subsequent shoving incidents could feasibly have had such barriers.