NEW YORK — A signal malfunction at the height of the morning commute in New York City upends subway service from Brooklyn to the Bronx. Switch problems leave riders stranded across Brooklyn. A power failure at just one Manhattan station snarls nearly a dozen of the system’s 22 lines.
Through this list of recent woes, the person most responsible for ensuring that the trains run on time, Gov. Andrew M. Cuomo of New York, has remained mostly silent as subway service gets worse by the day.
Cuomo, a Democrat who may be weighing a presidential run in 2020, has eagerly sought to burnish his legacy by focusing on infrastructure, from personally unveiling the first part of the Second Avenue subway on New Year’s Day to taking an inaugural joy ride across the new Kosciuszko Bridge last month.
But the subway is falling apart on his watch.
Business leaders are worried about the future. Residents are souring on the city.
Yet Cuomo often gets a pass: Many riders mistakenly direct their anger at Mayor Bill de Blasio, believing the city’s leader would naturally be in charge of its subway.
NEW YORK TIMES