125th Street (IND Eighth Avenue Line)

125th Street is an express station on the IND Eighth Avenue Line of the New York City Subway. Located at the intersection of 125th Street and St. Nicholas Avenue in Manhattan, it is served by the A and D trains at all times, by the C train at all times except late nights, and by the B train on weekdays.

The station is also used frequently as a transfer point to the M60 bus route, which connects Upper Manhattan to Queens and LaGuardia Airport. Nearby landmarks and points of interest include the Apollo Theater and the Touro College of Osteopathic Medicine.

The next express station to the south, 59th Street – Columbus Circle, is 3.35 miles (5.391 km) away with seven local stations in between. This is the longest distance between two express stops in the system.

History

125th Street opened on September 10, 1932, along with the rest of the IND Eighth Avenue Line from Chambers Street to 207th Street.

The station was renovated in the 1980s, during which two stairs to each platform at the north end were removed and the platforms' original white floor tiling was replaced. Another renovation later made restored the closed staircases and made station ADA-accessible with the installation of elevators near the middle of the platforms.

Station layout

The station has four tracks and two island platforms. B and C local trains stop on the outer tracks while A and D express trains stop on the inner tracks. During late night hours, when neither the B nor C train operates, the A makes local stops along Central Park West.

The outer track wall tiles have a green trim line with a black border with small "125" signs in white lettering on a black background beneath it. Both platforms have one line of green i-beam columns that run at regular intervals for their entire lengths except for a small sections at either ends. Every other column has the standard black station name plate in white lettering.

The station has a full length mezzanine above the tracks and platforms that connect both fare control areas at either ends. There are five staircases to each platform and large-scale photos of Harlem in the 1920s and 1930s. There is also evidence of two closed exit stairs going up to 126th Street, one on each side of the mezzanine. One of the staircases led directly into the basement a business that existed at street level.

The full-time fare control area is at the south end of the mezzanine and has a turnstile bank, token booth, and four staircases going up to all four corners of 125th Street and Saint Nicholas Avenue and one elevator to the southwest corner. The other fare control area at the north end is unstaffed, containing full height turnstiles and two staircases going up to either southern corners of 127th Street and Saint Nicholas Avenue.

References

External links

• nycsubway.org — IND 8th Avenue: 125th Street
• Station Reporter — A Lefferts
• Station Reporter — A Rockaway
• Station Reporter — B Train
• Station Reporter — C Train
• Station Reporter — D Train
• The Subway Nut — 125th Street Pictures
• 125th Street entrance at southwest corner from Google Maps Street View
• 127th Street entrance at southwest corner from Google Maps Street View