Borough Park, Brooklyn, NY - Has Some Of The Worst Maintained M.T.A. Properties

Borough Park, Brooklyn, NY - Many of the Metropolitan Transportation Authority's outdoor properties are poorly lighted and rarely cleaned, making them magnets for "litterers, dumpers and graffiti vandals," according to a City Council report of outdoor train tracks, bridges and subway stations maintained by the agency.

According to the report, some of the worst-maintained properties were found in Borough Park, Brooklyn, near tracks for the D and M trains, where investigators photographed rusty air conditioners leaning against a cracked retaining wall plastered with graffiti.

The report, to be released by the Council's Policy and Investigations Division, calls the authority a "a bad neighbor" that would have already been punished for violating city health codes were it not a public agency.