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Bronx straphangers should slip on a pair of gloves.
Subway stations in the city’s northernmost borough are the grimiest and most rank in the entire city — placing them dead last in terms of cleanliness, graffiti and litter, according to a new MTA report.
After pestering top brass about the filth, MTA board member Charles Moerdler said the dirt and decay are so dire that some Bronx stations should be torn down.
“We have the worst stations in the entire system,” fumed Moerdler, who lives in Riverdale, at yesterday’s transit committee meeting.
“I used to be a buildings commissioner, and if I still was buildings commissioner, I would condemn them!” he said.
MTA inspectors found that the borough’s subway stations only passed muster a mere 78.5 percent of the time in June, according to the figures released yesterday.
That score calculates the percentage of time MTA officials rated the subway stations to be clean, citing litter, graffiti and overall tidiness.
“In the morning, the rats greet me at the end of the platform at 149th Street,” said Rosa Cruz, 42, a college administrator who works in The Bronx.
“Manhattan gets more maintenance. If the neighborhood gets better, the subway stations get better. I’ve seen it happen in Williamsburg,” she said.
Queens’ stops were deemed the most sanitary, scoring high ratings 86.4 percent of the time.
Brooklyn came in second at 86 percent, followed by Manhattan, which got 82.4 percent.
But in The Bronx, garbage-filled platforms, disgusting odors and crumbling, dirt-caked walls are the norm all over the borough, yet another recent report found.
“You see rats just as much as commuters!” Bronx Borough President Ruben Diaz Jr. said after issuing his own scathing report two months ago.
“There’s cracks on the wall, garbage on the tracks, bad smell,” he said.
Even the heavily trafficked 149th Street/Grand Concourse station — which has over 3 million riders a year — is a grubby mess.
The walls in The Bronx’s busiest station were covered in muck and displayed “unsightly deterioration,” Diaz’s report read.
The MTA swears it’s already begun to fix many of the problems.
“We have completed station rehabs at 42 of the 71 Bronx stations that serve 91 percent of the borough’s riders,” said Kevin Ortiz, an MTA spokesman. There are 468 stations in the entire city.
“We are currently working on nine stations and have plans to work on 17 other Bronx stations, pending the availability of capital funds,” he added.
Bronx residents aren’t holding their breath — except maybe to avoid the stench.
“It is always dirty, the walls, the ground. They need to steam it,” said Delores McFadden, a clerk from Parkchester.