Subway Derailment in Manhattan Injures Dozens<br />Mr. Cuomo released a statement on Tuesday night, saying<br />that under Mr. Lhota’s leadership, he hoped to address the “fundamental issues plaguing the transit system.”<br />“While the investigation is ongoing, this morning’s subway derailment is an unacceptable manifestation of the system’s current state,” Mr. Cuomo said.<br />I really don’t want to get back on a train.”<br />The cause of the accident was under investigation,<br />but Joseph J. Lhota, the newly named leader of the Metropolitan Transportation Authority, which operates the subway, said the train careened off the tracks after its emergency brakes were activated.<br />In 2015, a G train derailed in Brooklyn, injuring three people, when pieces of a crumbling wall fell on<br />to the tracks — an accident subway officials said amplified the need for infrastructure improvements.<br />On Tuesday night, local A train service was restored between Columbus Circle<br />and 168th Street in Manhattan, but C train service remained suspended in the area.<br />Mr. Cuomo did not visit the derailment site, as he did when a Long Island Rail Road train derailed in January; his office<br />said he traveled on Tuesday morning to Albany, where he called a special legislative session to begin on Wednesday.
