MTA turns away crowd at job fair

The MTA told unemployed New Yorkers to bring their resumes to a job fair on Thursday.

But so many showed up that throngs of people had to be turned away.

MTA spokesman Adam Lisberg said the agency was preparing for “hundreds” at Columbia University’s Lerner Hall, but thousands showed up for a chance to meet with hiring reps. “There was physically no way to accommodate everyone,” Lisberg said.

He attributed the flood of job hunters in part to pushing the fair on social media.

April Lopez drove from Midwood and found that the line to get in wrapped around the block 90 minutes before the fair opened at 10 a.m. “They should have been equipped to see everybody,” said Lopez, who added that she is discouraged from future fairs.

MTA personnel handed out and collected forms for people to list their skills and their preferred positions to “make sure everybody got a chance to be considered,” Lisberg said.