New York, NY, July 17--Straphangers might have slipped on the tile, but they aren't getting soaked with the cost, according to NewsDay.
The supplier of slick tiling mistakenly installed in three subway stations along Lexington Avenue is eating the cost of replacements.
"The manufacturer agreed to take back all of these tiles and substitute them with new ones at no cost to us," Mysore Nagaraja, NYC Transit's senior vice president and chief engineer, told a Metropolitan Transportation Authority panel Wednesday.
The Italian-made tile--manufactured by the Rome-based Caesar Ceramics in Rome and distributed by Dal-Tile Corp. in Maspeth-- cost $1.7 million, officials said. The MTA determined the tiling was accidentally covered with a shiny feldspar coating.
Newsday reported last month that passengers were slipping at the 86th Street station after rainwater seeped onto the platform, prompting the MTA to remove the flooring from three stations and scrap plans to install it at six others.
