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5/31/2024
Metropolitan Transportation Authority Chair and CEO Janno Lieber has appointed Demetrius Crichlow interim president of MTA New York City Transit, effective June 14. He will succeed Richard Davey, who’s leaving his NYCT post to become CEO of the Massachusetts Port Authority.
Crichlow has led NYCT’s Department of Subways as senior vice president since July 2021. During that time, service increased and ridership has risen 67%, according to a MTA press release.
Crichlow is a lifelong New Yorker who started his career with the MTA in 1997 as an assistant signal maintainer at the Long Island Rail Road. He rose through the ranks at LIRR to become train- movement supervisor, overseeing operations at Penn Station Central Control. In 2007, he transferred to MTA headquarters to become special assistant for operations for then-Executive Director Elliot Sander.
Crichlow is the third generation of his family to work for NYCT.
“Demetrius is a longtime leader at New York City Transit who has ensured subway system performance remains at record levels even as we dramatically increased service beginning last summer,” Lieber said. “I have confidence that he will be able to build on the successes he’s helped to achieve.”