Where subway grating, emergency exits, or other transit infrastructure sits within a sidewalk's footprint, responsibility for that specific hardware typically falls to the MTA rather than the adjacent property owner, even though the surrounding sidewalk repair remains the owner's responsibility. This distinction matters when a defect near transit infrastructure is being scoped for repair, since the property owner's contractor generally isn't authorized to touch MTA-owned hardware directly. Sorting out this boundary is worth doing early if a violation is near a subway entrance or grating.
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