Video of rider peeing on train shows just how much NYC subways have gone down the toilet

Video shows just how much city subway conditions have gone down the toilet — with a rider brazenly urinating straight into the aisle while the MTA washed its hands of the disgusting incident Friday.

The man’s rude act was caught on camera in full view of at least three people on the train, who watched as he lay sprawled across several seats while his urine ran down the car toward the person filming before it pooled under other passengers’ feet.

MTA rep Kayla Shults declined comment to The Post on the video — and instead pointed to the NYPD for answers.


Video shows just how much city subway conditions have gone down the toilet -- with a rider brazenly urinating straight into the aisle while the MTA washed its hands of the disgusting incident Friday.
Video shows a rider brazenly urinating into a subway car — while the MTA washed its hands of the disgusting act. Instagram/tenzin_methok_

“This is not a new video,’’ Shults claimed — while refusing to say when it was taken.

“NYPD is responsible for patrolling the subways,” the representative added before simply sharing the MTA’s Rules of Conduct.

Asked whether MTA workers could intervene if they witnessed such an illegal action, another rep, Eugene Resnick, replied, “We run a transit agency, our focus is mass transit.”

But Rep. Ritchie Torres had plenty to say about the footage, which he tweeted on X after it was “liked’’ nearly 9,000 times on Instagram, where it first surfaced.

“A mentally disturbed person is publicly urinating in the subway, pissing on a public transit system that pisses away $700 million a year in fare evasion,” Torres seethed on the site.

“Why do we accept this? New York can do better than what a broken system can deliver.”


Congressman Richie Torres.
“A mentally disturbed person is publicly urinating in the subway, pissing on a public transit system that pisses away $700 million a year in fare evasion,” Congressman Richie Torres wrote on X. Matthew McDermott

Torres, a former city councilman elected to Congress in 2020, has been a vocal critic of the public transit system and Hochul.

He has ripped her for things such as her infamous flip-flop on the hotly controversial upcoming congestion-pricing toll in Manhattan, where drivers will be forced to cough up another $9 to enter Midtown.

Hochul was at first for the planned new toll, then paused its implementation before the November elections, then announced days later that it would be moving ahead again.

Advocates say it is needed to pay for needed transit repairs and expansions, while foes say it is nothing more than a new commuter tax to bail out a bloated bureaucratic agency.

The NYPD did not respond to a Post request for comment.

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