The NYPD’s controversial subway metal detector program is being deployed to subway stations within the next several days, Mayor Adams said Wednesday at a joint press conference with the MTA.

The first detectors will be installed on Thursday or Friday at a handful of subway stations. Listen to 710 WOR on your free @iHeartRadio app.

The NYPD deployed metal detectors at the Fulton St. station in lower Manhattan on Friday, scanning straphangers for weapons for the first time in the subway system's 119-year history.

How effective the metal detectors will be at subway stations across the city is yet to be seen. Time will tell whether they will be as effective in the real world as in the lab, much like any ...

LA Metro testing metal detectors at B and D subway lines at Union Station Some say the technology won't make it safer if screeners and law enforcement don't pay close attention ...

NEW YORK CITY (PIX11) – The city’s new gun-detecting scanners set up at some subway stations produced false positives on over 4% of scans, according to the NYPD. The city tested the machines ...