You're sadly mistaken if you think a New York, one of the largest and busiest cities in human existence, is "just another large City", and that the solution to their transportation woes is to just lock it down and work on it.

New York is the 28th largest city, with another 10 within one million.

So while it is one of the largest, it's hardly unique.

[https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_largest_cities]

Shutting the subway down at night for maintenance and running night buses as a replacement is a pretty straightforward method that other, similarly large cities are using successfully.

it's extremely small compared to population of Beijing or shanghai for instance and Beijing shut down subway around 11PM. but yeah people in NY are the only ones working in night, common, you really believe it or you don't have passport?

NYC is unique as it's always be the center of the universe, even it's just 8M people live here, and other cities, like Tokyo/Hong Kong/Beijing/Shanghai has more population that it

The NYC subway system has more stations than any other subway system in the world. 29% more than next most station-rich system.

Would that approve anything or excuse for anything? According wiki, NYC has 424 stations, and Shanghai Metro has 393 stations. (424-393)/393 = 7.3%