All NYC's Subway Stations, Mapped By Awfulness

Ever wish you had some scientific data to confirm the precise awfulness of each and every subway station in New York City?

Here to make your dreams come true is the Citizens Budget Commission of New York (CBCNY), a nonprofit watchdog group that advocates for government efficiency.

The group just released a briefing on Metropolitan Transit Authority (MTA) infrastructure, budgeting and policy, based on 2012 city data — and it’s a virtual wonderland of maps and charts and ancient Greek metaphors.

“In Greek mythology the gods condemned King Sisyphus to push a boulder up a hill repeatedly, only to have it roll down to the bottom as he approached the top,” the report says. “While he deserves no such punishment, Thomas Prendergast, Chairman and Chief Executive Officer of the [MTA], must identify with Sisyphus’ fate as he prepares the agency’s capital program, particularly when it comes to rehabilitating and repairing 467 subway stations.”

Heavy stuff. But the best part of the report — for those short on attention span — is an accompanying interactive map showing the state of disrepair of every subway station in NYC.

Click any dot on the map, and you’ll be given that station’s ”Not in SGR” number — in other words, the percentage of its components not in a state of good repair.

Map available here and embedded below.

So that you don’t have to click on every single dot in pursuit of peak awfulness, the CBCNY has also compiled a chart of the 33 stations across the city that are in a state of majority disrepair. (Aka, more than 50 percent of their components are “not in SGR.”)

List available here and pasted below. Brooklyn stations are in bold.

1. 52nd Street (Queens) (7 Train): 79%
2. 85th Street-Forest Parkway (Queens) (J Train): 74%
3. 175th Street (Manhattan) (A Train): 73%
4. 30th Avenue (Queens) (N, Q Trains): 72%
5. 103rd Street-Corona Plaza (Queens) (7 Train): 68%
   
6. Borough Hall (Brooklyn) (2, 3 Trains): 68%
7. 36th Avenue (Queens) (N, Q Trains): 67%
8. Woodhaven Boulevard (Queens) (J, Z Trains): 67%
9. Cypress Hills (Brooklyn) (J Train): 67%
10. 7th Avenue (Brooklyn) (B, Q Trains): 67%
11. Astoria Boulevard (Queens) (N, Q Trains): 66%
12. 111th Street (Queens) (7 Train): 66%
13. 138th Street-Grand Concourse (Bronx) (4, 5 Trains): 65%
14. Nostrand Avenue (Brooklyn) (3 Train): 65%
15. 155th Street (Manhattan) (E Train): 64%
16. Woodside-61st Street (Queens) (7 Train): 64%
17. 39th Avenue (Queens) (N, Q Trains): 64%
18. 75th Street-Elderts Lane (Queens) (J, Z Trains): 63%
    
19. Harlem-148th Street (Manhattan) (3 Train): 63%
    
20. President Street (Brooklyn) (2, 3 Trains): 62%
    
21. Graham Avenue (Brooklyn) (L Train): 60%
    
22. 82nd Street-Jackson Heights (Queens) (7 Train): 58%
    
23. Borough Hall (Brooklyn) (4, 5 Trains): 58%
    
24. 145th Street (Manhattan) (3 Train): 57%
    
25. Dyckman Street (Manhattan) (A Train): 56%
    
26. Aqueduct Racetrack (Queens) (A Train): 56%
    
27. Broadway (Queens) (N, Q Trains): 55%
    
28. 59th Street (Brooklyn) (R Train): 54%
    
29. Prospect Avenue (Brooklyn) (R Train): 53%
    
30. 69th Street (Queens) (7 Train): 52%
    
31. Winthrop (Brooklyn) (5 Train): 52%
    
32. 3rd Avnue-138th Street (Bronx (6 Train): 51%
    
33. Nevins Street (Bronx) (2, 3, 4, 5 Trains): 51%
    

What does the CBCNY think the MTA should do about all this? In short, from the report:

• Reallocate funds from system expansions to SGR work

• Improve the management of projects so that more can be achieved with available funds

• Develop new public-private partnerships to make available private capital investment in the stations and lower rehabilitation costs.

In the meantime, at least now we know exactly — scientifically! — which of NYC’s 467 subway stations are the most awful of them all.