Honoring our fallen heroes

The MTA family mourns the heavy toll COVID-19 is taking on our coworkers and loved ones.

Despite the risks, our brave colleagues continue to show up to work every day to make sure other essential workers can get to the emergency rooms, ICU wards, eldercare homes, pharmacies, restaurants, grocery stores, police stations, firehouses, and other vital jobs that keep this city and region going.

But it is not without a devastating cost.

Our MTA brothers and sisters, their families and loved ones, are dealt blow after blow with each passing day as we hear of another bus operator or train operator, maintainer, station supervisor, dispatcher, mechanic, cleaner, track worker, traffic checker, or administrative colleague who has succumbed to complications from COVID-19.

We are as aware as ever that if not for the MTA, New York's healthcare workers and first responders could not fight this crisis. The work our MTA family continues to do in the face of this global health emergency is nothing short of heroic. We are a vital part of the life-saving system battling to stop the spread, minimize the loss and the pain, and march us back to whatever new “normal” lies ahead.

This page is the first step in our memorial to the fallen heroes in our family. The MTA honors their service and dedication, and joins with all Americans in saluting their bravery and patriotism.

May they rest in peace, and never be forgotten.