- Anytime passersby look up along Brighton Beach Avenue, peeling paint hangs off the old elevated subway line's beams, pillars and platforms.
Long considering it an eyesore, recently Kravtchenko's curiosity took over, so she purchased a lead paint testing kit online. "We brought the governor's office here to ask them to speak to the MTA and have them expedite the repainting of the tracks here," says Councilmember Inna Vernikov, explaining that she invited the state to see the subway even before Kravtchenko informed her of the lead.
That's why Vernikov, a Republican, joined with Democratic State Senator Jessica Scarcella-Spanton in a bipartisan effort. They wrote a letter to the MTA, calling on the agency to immediately conduct lab testing.
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