Officials representing Norwood are urging the MTA to consider building an elevator at the Mosholu Parkway subway station, which could be a boon to disabled riders who get on and off the station.

In a letter drafted to authority president Andy Byford, Assembly Members Jeff Dinowitz and Nathalia Fernandez, Councilman Andrew Cohen, and state Senator Jamaal Bailey, lobbied for the station to get an elevator.

The news comes as the MTA Board approved $300 million to reconfigure 18 stations to make them wheelchair accessible, adhering to a 1993 federal ruling that mandates all current and new stations across the system comply with the 1990 Americans with Disabilities Act.

“Not only does the zip code containing this station (10467) reflect a population with a disability rate of 15.2 percent (14,800 people, which is numerically the most of any zip code in the Bronx) but also there are a multitude of institutions that assist people with mobility impairments within a mere half-mile of this station,” wrote Dinowitz of the Mosholu station.

MTA figures show 2.8 million riders got on or off at the station in 2016, ranking as the 182nd busiest subway station in the city for that year.

The station is within walking distance of Montefiore Health System’s Moses Campus, North Central Bronx Hospital, and three nursing homes.

“[P]eople who require an elevator to use New York City Transit have only five percent of the trip-making opportunities as their non-disabled counterparts,” Dinowitz said in the letter. “Let’s work together to ensure that we rectify this imbalance by prioritizing stations that best serve the needs of those for whom the city has been out of reach for too long.”