The Metropolitan Transportation Authority (MTA) and its volunteer 'Mask Force' will distribute 114,500 free pink surgical masks to customers throughout the MTA service region in recognition of Breast Cancer Awareness Month. The new initiative will begin with top executives from the MTA, including Chairman and CEO Patrick J. Foye, joining the Mask Force throughout the subway, bus and commuter rail network on Tuesday morning. The Mask Force regularly hands out free masks to promote health and safety in transit for the protection of riders and employees.

 

Tuesday, Oct. 20

 

NOTE: Exact times are below. Media wishing to make stills or video of leaders distributing pink masks should plan to arrive early as some of the leaders will be boarding trains and buses and departing the initial locations given below.

 

6:30 a.m. to 7:06 a.m.: Long Island Rail Road President Phil Eng at Hicksville LIRR Station, NASSAU COUNTY

7:00 a.m.: Craig Cipriano, President of the MTA Bus Co. and Senior Vice President of MTA New York City Transit Dept. of Buses at Williamsburg Bridge Plaza (Broadway and S. 8th Street, Williamsburg), BROOKLYN  

 

7:10 a.m. to 7:43 a.m.: Metro-North Railroad President Catherine Rinaldi, and Metro-Man, Metro-North Railroad’s safety-obsessed robotic super-hero, at Marble Hill Metro-North Railroad Station, MANHATTAN

 

7:30 a.m. to 7:53 a.m.: MTA Chairman and CEO Patrick J. Foye, LIRR President Phil Eng and MTA General Counsel Tom Quigley at Jamaica LIRR Station, QUEENS. 

 

11 a.m.: NYC Transit Interim President Sarah Feinberg at Bowling Green Subway Station, MANHATTAN

 

CONTACT: MTA Press Office, (212) 878-7440