When Will MTA Repair Roosevelt Island F Train Subway Station Entrance/Exit Door - Will New Walder Policy Quicken Fix?

Broken Door To Roosevelt Island F Train Subway Station Entrance

What will it take for the MTA to fix the street level entrance/exit door of the Roosevelt Island F Train Subway Station? I don't recall how long the door has been broken but it has been at least a month if not longer.

Roosevelt Island F Train Subway Station Entrance

Could this be the reason why the Roosevelt Island subway station entrance/exit door remains broken? The NY Times City Room blog reported that for years the policy of the MTA was that no single part of a subway station could be repaired, except for an emergency, unless the entire station was completely renovated. According to the NY Times:

...This, in practice, meant that many stations were never touched. A station might get the V.I.P. treatment once every few decades, with only a handful of lucky stations selected for rehabs per year. The rest were left to deteriorate.
No longer. Under a new plan instituted by Jay H. Walder, the authority’s reform-minded chairman, workers will respond to such problems on an as-needed basis. Which means, ideally, a cleaner and more cheerful travel experience.
“The best is the enemy of the good,” Mr. Walder said at a briefing last week with reporters, reciting a mantra that he hopes will become gospel at an agency long criticized for a perceived culture of waste and bloat...

Let's see if the MTA will now fix the Roosevelt Island street level subway door. Here's how to contact the MTA's F Line General Manager and tell him to fix the door.

The MTA also reported that the average weekday Roosevelt Island F Train ridership during 2009 was 5816, average Saturday ridership 3939 and average Sunday ridership 3271.

Roosevelt Island 360 reprints a NY Times map showing that the 2009 average daily Roosevelt Island F Train ridership decreased 2.8% from 2008.