NYC Reopens
NYC Subway’s Virus Killers Unleash Mops, Mist on 6,000 Cars a Night
More than 6,000 train cars need to be disinfected, every night, prior to the A.M. commute. Meet the night crew keeping the subway virus-free.
An MTA contractor disinfects a subway train at the 96th Street-2nd Avenue station in New York, on June 10.
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Editor’s Note: No city is more important to America’s economy than New York, and none has been hit harder by the coronavirus. “NYC Reopens” examines life in the capital of capitalism as the city takes its first halting steps toward a new normal.
The train grinds to a halt shortly before 1 a.m. At the far end of the platform at the 96th Street and Second Avenue station — the end of the Q line — Erling Galan logs the arrival time on his iPad.