Memorial To MTA Workers Lost To COVID Installed In Inwood Station

INWOOD, NY — A train station in Inwood recently got a new art installation honoring the Metropolitan Transit Authority workers that have lost their lives to the COVID-19 pandemic.

The Dyckman Street A train station in Inwood is one of 107 stations across New York City to get a temporary digital screen with an eight-minute video dedicated to the 136 MTA employees who have died since the onset of the pandemic.

It is the only station in Inwood or Washington Heights getting the digital art installation.

The installation is created from pictures shared by family members of the fallen MTA workers and is entitled, "Travels Far: A Memorial Honoring Our Colleagues Lost to COVID-19." It is based on a poem by Tracy K. Smith, a former U.S. Poet Laureate, commissioned specifically for this project.

The video will play twice consecutively three times a day, at 10:30 a.m., 2:30 p.m., and 8:30 p.m. from this Monday through Sunday.

"COVID-19 has been a devastating scourge on our entire country and, tragically, that includes the MTA's workforce," said MTA Chairman and CEO Patrick Foye, in a news release. "We quickly made sure that those families who lost an MTA worker to COVID were taken care of financially, but the launch of today's memorial is aimed at personalizing the legacies of those who died during the pandemic."

You can check out a list of all the New York City train stations that the art memorial has been installed in on the MTA website.