Metro

Asleep at the switch: Subway station agent caught snoozing on the job

The “Zzz” train does stop at Grand Street, after all.

An MTA station agent was caught in a deep sleep while on duty at the B/D Sixth Avenue-line station yesterday morning.

A straphanger spotted the unidentified clerk in Booth N520 around 2 a.m.

His eyes were shut tightly, his mouth was open wide — and he was completely unfazed by the ruckus from the bar-and-club crowd at that hour.

Riders, who are sick of paying constant fare hikes, were outraged.

“If a crime occurred and he was sleeping, who would know?” asked Sergio Narine, 20, of Flatbush. “Who would be a witness?

“At the end of the day, it’s his job,” Narine fumed. “I work at a library; if I slept there, who would help people get books?”

José Perez, 37, called the work-time snooze “no good.”

“People might need MetroCards and miss their trains while he’s sleeping,” Perez said. “You have to do your job.”

MTA spokesman Adam Lisberg said that “subway- station agents are expected to be alert while on the job.”

“We will investigate what happened based on the information . . . provided,” Lisberg said. “And if we determine discipline needs to be administered, we will do so in accordance with the provisions of our labor agreement.”