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‘A long way to go’: A look at the MTA’s ‘accessibility desert’ in Bronx and Brooklyn

News 12 took a deeper look at how the Bronx and Brooklyn are impacted in what some have coined "an accessibility desert" in the city subway system.

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Jul 2, 2019, 5:39 PM

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