Nonstop subway service should be restored in New York City, Sen. Chuck Schumer (D-N.Y.) said on Sunday. “The city that never sleeps has a name we have to live up to everywhere, including within our subway service,” Schumer, the Senate majority leader, told a briefing in the city. As normal life resumes for many in the metropolis, the subway should be available at all times, the Democrat said. Because of the COVID-19 pandemic, New York Gov. Andrew Cuomo on April 30, 2020, ordered the subway system to shut down each day for four hours starting at 1 a.m. The move came because of deteriorating conditions, deaths from COVID-19 among transit workers, and a plunging subway ridership. But the number of riders has shot up in recent months, hovering around 2 million per day in the last two weeks, according to the Metropolitan Transportation Authority (MTA). That’s down over 50 percent from an …
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