New York City's tallest subway station will receive long-awaited elevators as part of the MTA's $68 billion capital plan.

The Metropolitan Transportation Authority plans to award a $1.9 billion contract on Monday to bore tunnels and begin to build two new Harlem subway stations for the much-anticipated extension of the Second Avenue subway.

The MTA board is expected to hold a special session Monday in order to approve a nearly $2 billion contract to dig the bulk of the next phase of the Second Ave. subway.

Authorities are looking for a callous straphanger who stole the pooch of another rider while he was sleeping on a subway in the Bronx, according to police. The 45-year-old victim was snoozing on a D train near Bainbridge Avenue and East 206th Street around 6 a.

Two subway riders were robbed and slashed in the face after they refused to give a panhandler money on a train early Saturday morning, police said. The first victim refused to give the panhandler money on board a D train at the Kingsbridge Rd.

The suspect was onboard an F train at the Jamaica-179th St. station around 4 a.m. on Aug. 9 when he approached the victim and said menacingly, “What are you looking at?” police said.

Subway service is suspended on a portion of Line 1 due to what transit officials say is an injury at track level. Service between Finch and Sheppard-Yonge stations was suspended just before 4 p.m. due to an incident at North York Centre Station,

A straphanger was slashed in the face by a maniac on a Bronx subway train early Saturday after refusing to hand over his cash, police said. The violent episode occurred on a northbound D train as it pulled into the Kingsbridge Road station just after 4 a.