A ceiling collapse at the Atlantic Avenue-Barclays Center station

Yesterday morning, around 8 am, @SarahIsSorry posted on Twitter a video of a ceiling collapse at the Atlantic Avenue-Barclays Center train station, on the 4 and 5 train platform. It's gotten 194,000 views a day later, and provoked much dismay and frustration.

Hello @MTA and @NYCTSubway ...your ceilings are falling on people again. pic.twitter.com/nhEM5SyLom

— Sarah. (@SarahisSorry) September 21, 2018

Hi, Sarah. We're aware of this situation and our crews are responding to get this taken care of. ^JL

— NYCT Subway (@NYCTSubway) September 21, 2018

5 train conductor claimed we were bypassing Atlantic due to a "sick passenger" not crumbling infrastructure.

— Erick Blasco (@BlascoErick) September 21, 2018

It should be noted that, while Forest City Ratner spent $76 million to add functionality to the station, it was not charged to repair the section at issue. (That said, as I reported in August 2009, the tunnels on the B/Q were in precarious condition, and were supposed to be shored up.)

AFAIK Forest City's ambit to create new subway access to/from what is now @BarclaysCenter plaza did *not* include repairing part of station where ceiling just fell. Here's excerpt from original bid https://t.co/UPcorSpXmw pic.twitter.com/w4mlnL6Kuf

— Norman Oder (@AYReport) September 21, 2018

.@RidersNY statement on this morning's ceiling collapse: "riders should be venting their rage at the governor and members of the legislature until they do their job and pass a sustainable funding source like congestion pricing to fix the subway." pic.twitter.com/yN1xTu2pkS

— Aaron W. Gordon (@A_W_Gordon) September 21, 2018