If you or a family member are Injured on the NYC Subway? Here's What You Need to Know

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Every day, millions of New Yorkers rely on the subway. Three to five times a week, someone is struck by a New York City subway train. Most New Yorkers don’t know that. The NYCTA/MTA does. Catastrophic injuries and deaths around the NYC Subway and Train systems happen far more often than many people realize.

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People are injured after train strike incidents, falling on station stairs, slipping on wet platforms, falling into the gap, dangerous station conditions, and assaults. If you've been injured in or around a NYC train station, you or your family need to act quickly to preserve evidence such as video, audio, event data recorder (black box) data your legal rights and preserve video and data before its destroyed.

Many subway injury cases involve allegations that the Metropolitan Transportation Authority (MTA), the New York City Transit Authority, contractors, or other responsible parties failed to maintain reasonably safe conditions or failed to take steps that could have prevented foreseeable injuries. Unlike many personal injury claims, lawsuits involving public transportation often have extremely short legal deadlines. In many cases, injured individuals may need to file a Notice of Claim within 90 days of the incident. Waiting too long can permanently affect your ability to seek compensation. Evidence also disappears quickly. Security footage may be overwritten, witnesses become difficult to locate, and accident scenes change.

For these reasons, anyone injured on the subway should consider:

• Reporting the incident immediately
• Seeking medical treatment
• Photographing the scene if possible
• Identifying witnesses
• Speaking with an attorney before giving recorded statements

The attorneys behind Subway.Legal, a collaboration between Roth & Roth, LLP and Sonin & Genis, LLC, focus on representing victims injured throughout New York City's subway system. Roth & Roth, LLP and Sonin & Genis, LLC are two personal injury firms that have spent more than 25 years representing seriously injured New Yorkers. Since 2019, they have joined forces on a dedicated subway litigation practice.

What brought them together was a fact most commuters never think about: people fall onto the tracks. They are pushed. They come into contact with moving trains at stations across the city, multiple times every week. Safety measures that could prevent these incidents — including platform edge barriers — have been available for decades. The Transit Authority has chosen not to install them.

In November 2025, the firms obtained an $81.7 million federal jury verdict involving allegations that platform edge barriers or other safety measures could have prevented a catastrophic subway incident. The verdict highlighted evidence regarding longstanding knowledge of track intrusion risks and the availability of preventive safety measures.

A subway injury can have lasting physical, emotional, and financial consequences. Visit Subway.Legal to learn more about your rights, explore your legal options, and request a free, confidential consultation with attorneys who focus on NYC subway injury cases.

Roth & Roth, LLP — 192 Lexington Avenue, Suite 802, New York, NY 10016 — (212) 425-1020

Sonin & Genis, LLC — 1 Fordham Plaza, Suite 907, Bronx, NY 10458 — (718) 561-4444

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