Paying sky-high rent does not guarantee that your subway stop won’t have rock-bottom conditions.
Stations in some of the city’s priciest neighborhoods were among the dreariest, The Post found.
Many had missing tiles and water damage, and at one stop a Post reporter spotted a rat.
The Chambers Street, Park Place and City Hall stations all fall in an area of lower Manhattan where residential rents average $3,927, according to Miller Samuel Real Estate Appraisers.
Juan Perez, 48, who uses the Chambers Street J/Z station, said the platform there is one of the dingiest he has seen.
“It looks like it hasn’t been retiled since the 1920s,” he said. “It’s falling apart.”
The Park Place station on Wednesday had missing tiles and heavy water damage. At the City Hall station paint was peeling.
“It’s gritty and it’s not a good representation of our city,” said Harry Dubin, an Upper East Sider who uses the City Hall stop to visit his sister and her family at a luxury condo nearby.
“It’s rundown and a dump.”
The Straphangers Campaign rider-advocacy group released a report Wednesday that looked at conditions on 862 subway station platforms over the summer.
Surveyors scouted for overflowing garbage cans on platforms, rats, graffiti, peeling paint and missing tiles, among other conditions.
They found that 82 percent of underground platforms had significant water damage and 74 percent needed a fresh paint job, according to the report.
Rats were spotted on 13 percent of underground platforms, up slightly from the year before.
“We found what many riders know from bitter daily experience,” said Jason Chin-Fatt, a Straphangers field organizer. “Many subway platforms are grim and dreary.”
In Park Slope, one of the nicest neighborhoods in Brooklyn, where the average monthly rent is slightly above $3,000, residents griped about the drab R-train stop at Fourth Avenue-Ninth Street.
“Rent here is pretty high,” said Flavia Polo, 28, a teacher who said she envies riders able to use the cleaner Borough Hall stop nearby. “You expect to have a station you don’t mind waiting in for five minutes.”
The MTA said in a statement that safety is the top priority, and any safety-related defects are quickly repaired. The authority is projected to correct more than 53,000 station defects this year — a 36 percent increase from last.
Additional reporting by Jennifer Gould Keil