As a manhunt began Tuesday morning for the person who shot 10 people in a crowded Brooklyn subway car, law enforcement quickly looked to the station cameras that they hoped had caught their suspect on tape.
But they were out of luck.
The surveillance cameras at the 36th Street station in Sunset Park, where the incident occurred, had not been working, MTA officials later said.
While New York City boasts the world’s fifth largest metropolitan train system, it ranks fourteenth in terms of the number of surveillance cameras it has in operation. And even the cameras it does have have been known to malfunction.
