List of accessible New York City Subway stations

The majority of the New York City Subway system was built before 1990, the year the Americans with Disabilities Act (ADA) went into effect. As a side effect, many New York City Subway stations were not designed to be accessible to disabled people. Since then, elevators have been built in newly constructed stations to comply with the ADA. (Most grade-level stations required little modification to meet ADA standards.) In addition, the MTA identified "key stations," high-traffic and/or geographically important stations, which must conform to the ADA when they are extensively renovated. As of January 2017^[update], out of 472 total stations in the system, 117 are accessible; many of them have AutoGate access. Five stations on the Staten Island Railway are also accessible. Additionally, there are 16 more non-ADA-accessible stations with cross-platform interchanges, as well as other same-platform transfers, designed to handle wheelchair transfers.

The Metropolitan Transportation Authority (MTA) has been gradually adding handicapped access to its key stations since the 1980s, as renovations take place. According to the MTA:

According to the MTA, fully accessible stations have:

The MTA has been criticized for the lack of accessibility in the New York City Subway. Only 19% of all of the subway system's stations are fully accessible to people with disabilities. Notably, places such as Woodlawn, south Brooklyn, and Astoria do not have any accessible stations. Many transfer stations, such as Chambers Street, Broadway Junction, Delancey Street–Essex Street, and 14th Street/Sixth Avenue are not wheelchair-accessible, making it harder to travel between different parts of the city. 42nd Street–Bryant Park/Fifth Avenue, and West Eighth Street–New York Aquarium are also not wheelchair-accessible, with the former having three elevators and the latter having a wheelchair ramp leading only to their respective mezzanines. The G and Rockaway Park Shuttle each have one accessible station, while the 42nd Street Shuttle is not accessible. Although all New York City buses are accessible, transfers between bus routes, as well as the bus trips themselves, are usually cumbersome because buses run at a much lower frequency than the subway does.

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