Council member Charles Allen (D-Ward 6), who shepherded the virtue-signaling bill through the Judiciary and Public Safety Committee, said fare evasion would be treated like a parking ticket.

Enforcement of turnstile jumping in New York City has plummeted since last year, but the numbers show that black and Latino straphangers are still more likely to get arrested for the crime. Of 5,00… ...

Data on turnstile arrests supports the contention by criminal reform advocates that such “broken windows” policing policies disproportionately punishes minorities by a large margin. 89 percent ...

As SEPTA faces a funding crisis and a looming “death spiral,” the transit agency began their efforts to stop fare evaders from costing them even more money. SEPTA began installing signs at ...

An 18-year-old Queens man busted for turnstile jumping turned out to be a murder suspect who cops had been searching for since the summer, police said. Shahid Burton, who lives in Long Island City ...

While the video shows a diverse cross-section of New Yorkers refusing to pay their $2.75 subway fare, either by jumping a turnstile, walking through an open emergency door, or slipping, however ...

A man caught jumping the turnstile at an East Harlem subway station pepper-sprayed NYPD cops moving in to arrest him early Wednesday, cops said.. The would-be fare beater had just jumped the ...

A 28-year-old man died when he jumped a subway turnstile at the the Forest Hills-71st Avenue station in Queens on Sunday and struck his head on the floor, cops said.

In 2018, the penalty for jumping a turnstile is a civil citation, similar to a traffic ticket, the accused can either pay a $100 fine or fight the case in the Transit Adjudication Bureau.