May 17, 2021 For the first time since the start of the pandemic, the subway system is running around-the-clock. Twenty four hour a day service resumed on Monday morning after closing overnights for cleaning. At the start of the pandemic the system would close from 1 a.m. to 5 a.m. and that was later scaled back to 2 a.m. to 4 a.m. “The subway returning to 24-hour service is a signal that we are closer than we have ever been to normal life,” Interim NYC Transit President Sarah Feinberg said in a statement. The resumption of overnight service comes as there has been a series of violent incidents in the system. The MTA is calling on Mayor Bill de Blasio and the NYPD to put more cops in the system.