MTA Subway Major Incidents in New York City from 2025

Major Incidents in the New York City subway system beginning in 2025, defined as unplanned events delaying 50 or more trains and causing significant customer disruption. The dataset is maintained by the State of New York and was last updated in February 2026.

Use Cases

• Analyze incident frequency and patterns across Subway Line categories to identify reliability hotspots.
• Correlate incident data with Service and Performance metrics to assess operational impact.
• Model trends in Delays to forecast future major service disruptions for the Subway system.

Strengths

• Data is current, with a last update timestamp of February 2026.
• Focuses on high-impact events defined by a concrete threshold of delaying 50 or more trains.
• Provided in multiple machine-readable formats including CSV, JSON, and XML.

Limitations

• The dataset's row count, column structure, and sample data are unknown, limiting initial assessment.
• The temporal coverage is recent, starting in 2025, which may not provide a long historical baseline for trend analysis.
• The license is unspecified, which may create uncertainty for commercial or redistribution use.

Provenance

Source

State of New York

Time Range

Beginning 2025

Freshness

Last updated on 2026-02-21.

Geography

New York City