Behind a cordoned-off area at the Third Avenue-138th Street subway station are new, modern fare arrays, part of an MTA pilot. They can also be spotted inside a construction site at Port Authority.

“We’re in the midst of a competition amongst four, you know, really impressive international companies that are making prototype fare gates for us to install in the system,” Jamie Torres-Springer, president of MTA Construction and Development, said. “We’re getting as many of them installed as we can over the next few weeks.”

There are four prototypes. In addition to the Third Avenue-138th Street and Port Authority stations, the Fourth Avenue-Pacific Street entrance to Atlantic-Barclays Center is also getting new fare arrays.

“Anything to stop the number of people that are getting on the subway

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