Water has been the weak point of NYC for as long as I’ve lived here. Anytime there is a good downpour the water goes straight into the subway. Most of the under

Water has been the weak point of NYC for as long as I’ve lived here. Anytime there is a good downpour the water goes straight into the subway. Most of the underground portions have open vents that go almost straight up from the platforms to open grates in the sidewalks - only slightly offset so that you can’t drop stuff directly onto the people from above. Rust and limescale is everywhere from all the groundwater penetration. On the elevated lines the drains on the tracks are perpetually clogged with trash. It only gets cleaned out a couple times a year and then they only run a giant vacuum over it - nobody actually tests the drains. I tried to report clogged drains a couple times - I even sent pictures showing two foot deep pools of water where the drains are located but the response was “That’s normal”. On the bright side running thousands of gallons of water through the subway is probably the closest it gets to a real cleaning. The people who spend thirty seconds mopping the first and last cars at the terminus stations don’t accomplish much.