Brent Nycz, 30, Manhattan

A New Yorker for 13 years, Nycz has been delayed by the subway more times than he can remember. But one agonizing commute hurt the kids he teaches and he won’t forgive the MTA for that.

In January 2014, it took Nycz over an hour to travel less than three miles from the 116th Street B/C stop to the 163rd Street station in Manhattan.

The daily ride from his Harlem apartment to the Washington Heights school where he worked should have taken 20 minutes.

A delay getting to work means Nycz’s class of special-education students is left with just one teacher until he arrives. The educator recalls feeling “panicky” as he was stuck on the sluggish subway, worried about his students and unable to tell concerned colleagues why he was late.

He used an MTA-issued late pass to have the tardy cleared from his record, but it didn’t make up for missing class.

“If I miss one period with my students, any continuity for the rest of the school day is shook up,” he said.

Tom Weppler, 53, Bronx

The IT technician was stuck one stop away from his work at Union Square for an hour on the 6 train the morning of Oct. 16, 2012. And on that exact day, he had begged his boss to switch hours with him, so he could work an hour early and leave an hour early.

“Considering the amount of cajoling I had to do to for him to switch with me finally, it was nuts to walk in there an hour later,” said Weppler. “He said, ‘Uhh you’ve been riding me all week and now you walk in at the same time? What’s the story?’”

So Weppler rquested the MTA form verifying he was stuck on the downtown train near 23rd Street because of signal problems, a sick passenger and track-circuit failure. He’s since used the slip two more times.

“Eventually my boss said, ‘You know what? Don’t even bother because everybody knows the train is just plain awful,’” said Weppler. “The best you can do is govern your own schedule and see if you can make it there in spite of the subway.”

Joe Salina, 34, Queens

The art curator’s commute to Chelsea should only take 30 minutes, but he always leaves an hour to spare.

“It’s to make sure I’m there on time,” said Salina, 34, who rides the L train from the Myrtle Wyckoff stop to 8th Avenue on weekdays. “You never know what to expect on the subway.”

Even with the extra time, Salina had to use the subway delay form three times after showing up 10-15 minutes late to his work at an art gallery.

The first time was last April, when all passengers on the L train were booted off at Bedford Avenue in Brooklyn at 6:30 a.m. with no explanation. “I was stuck in no man’s land with no other trains to take, so I ended up having to take a cab.”

In a panic, Salina filled out the form, but the MTA still couldn’t confirm the delay it because the subway wasn’t merely late — it was shut down all together.

Luckily, he was able to show the boss tweets from the MTA about the shutdown as well as his denied form to get off the hook.

“Knowing that I woke up extra early just to avoid issues, yet even that didn’t help, is really just mind boggling,” Salina said.

He was able to successfully submit the forms two more times for L train delays after that. But he thinks the whole process is “a huge pain.”