Fare evaders boldly enter the West 23rd St Station in the subway in New York via the emergency exit gate, evading paying the fare, on Wednesday July 12, 2023. Levine-Roberts/Sipa USA ...

Cost to taxpayers: $5.50, because I also convinced someone on the other side of that emergency-exit gate ... legal way in is to catch the eye of a station ... In Praise of the Subway Exit Gate.

A video released by the NYPD Friday shows the 36-year-old gun-toting suspect walking through an open emergency exit gate at the Nostrand Ave. station on the A line in Bedford-Stuyvesant, Brooklyn.

Police recovered a loaded, semi-automatic weapon from inside a subway station in Brooklyn. Transit officers stopped the teen, who they said was a transit offender, and searched his belongings.