Neighbors on the Upper East Side are banding together and hiring lawyers to thwart the installation of an elevator at the 68th Street/Hunter College station on the 6 line, and it's not that they fear an influx of physically challenged people clogging their sidewalks with wheelchairs and crutches. To build an elevator at the 68th Street station, the MTA would have to temporarily close entrances and build new points of entrance and egress for straphangers on 69th Street, a quieter residential street. “The idea of spending $57 million because you want to put in an elevator, and that elevator is going to change the character of our buildings, is madness," resident Charles Salfield told DNAinfo. [DNAinfo]
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