"Hosted by The Danny Fisher Show on Instagram, the video posted on Instagram on Jan. 17 showed participants used their best athletic skills, like climbing and jumping, to win the comical subterranean sports competition. We're here outside of Broadway-Lafayette in SoHo for New York City's very first fare evasion Olympics, Fisher, appearing as a sportscaster, exclaimed at the station. They truly went all out. They've installed new state-of-the-art turnstiles, really to challenge our competitors."
"As competitors hopped over the glass doors into the modestly sized space above them, crowds applauded and cheered, while the host gave a play-by-play of the fare-avoiding moves. I've never seen anything like it! Fisher yells into a microphone above the screaming crowd. The prize: a one-way OMNY ride Commuters find ways to get a free ride despite the MTA's efforts to combat fare evasion in the subway system.Photo by Dean Moses"
Viral footage showed a team of athletically skilled participants staging a comical 'Fare Evasion Olympics' at the Broadway-Lafayette Street subway station on Jan. 8. Competitors climbed, jumped, and hopped over newly installed transparent glass gates while spectators cheered and MTA workers observed and recorded. The gates were installed in December as part of a billion-dollar MTA initiative to upgrade subway entries and deter fare evasion. A hosted Instagram video framed the event as a playful sport, with a one-way OMNY ride offered as a prize. The spectacle illustrated continued commuter attempts to find free rides despite MTA enforcement efforts.
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