Have you seen what the street above that station (note the station name) looks like during non-rush-hour situations? It's still that crowded.

(I'll also point out that you picked literally the busiest station on the entire system to use as an example.)

Just a quick YouTube search. I’m a life long long New Yorker, I can promise you that’s not the busiest. I can try to find you some video of the 7 line, it’s like that all the way from Grand Central to Main Street Flushing during rush hour.

The thing about the subway is that we all try to hold onto a pole or bar, total vectors for the spread. It’s not just an obvious case of being near each other, we’re forced to touch the same surfaces so we don’t collide every 30 seconds.

MTA says Times Square is the busiest station, by a not-even-close margin (63M annual versus 44M for #2): http://web.mta.info/nyct/facts/ridership/ridership_sub_annua...

Ah right, I didn’t even check to see the station. My larger point is there are many many stations that look just like that during rush hour.

I don't doubt you. But my larger point is that there are plenty of other situations in NYC where there's sufficient crowding for coronavirus spread.

Well, it may move the most riders, but if it has more trains the cars may not end up as crowded. OK way into nitpicking territory now :)