Sensitive Subway Blueprints Found On Street Corner

FEBRUARY 06TH, 2005

Blueprints of one of the city’s busiest subway stations were reportedly found on a street corner in Brooklyn, raising security concerns.

According to the New York Post, a number of Metropolitan Transportation Authority documents, including schematics of the Atlantic Avenue subway and Long Island Rail Road station, were found scattered on the corner of Greene and Carlton avenues in Fort Greene.

The Post says the documents include diagrams of the location of station air ducts, accessible manholes and electrical systems.

It is no clear from where the documents came.

Transit officials say they are investigating the incident, adding it's their policy to shred all sensitive documents.