116th Street (IND Eighth Avenue Line)

116th Street

New York City Subway rapid transit station

Station statistics

Address

West 116th Street & Frederick Douglass Boulevard
New York, NY 10026

Borough

Manhattan

Locale

Harlem

Coordinates

40°48′16″N 73°57′19″W / 40.804389°N 73.955412°WCoordinates: 40°48′16″N 73°57′19″W / 40.804389°N 73.955412°W

Division

B (IND)

Line

IND Eighth Avenue Line

Services

      A (late nights)
      B (weekdays until 11:00 p.m.)
      C (all except late nights)

Transit connections

NYCT Bus: M7, M10, M116

Structure

Underground

Platforms

2 side platforms

Tracks

Other information

Opened

September 10, 1932^[1]

Traffic

Passengers (2014)

2,234,662^[2]

5.3%

Rank

222 out of 421

Station succession

Next north

125th Street: A B C

Next south

Cathedral Parkway – 110th Street: A B C

Station service legend
Symbol	Description
	Stops all times except late nights
	Stops late nights only
	Stops weekdays only

116th Street is a local station on the IND Eighth Avenue Line of the New York City Subway. Located at the intersection of 116th Street and 8th Avenue in the Manhattan neighborhood of Harlem, it is served by the C train at all times except nights, when the A train takes over service. The B train provides additional service here on weekdays except nights.

Station layout

G	Street Level	Exit/Entrance
P Platform level	Side platform, doors will open on the right
	Northbound local	← toward Bedford Park Boulevard rush hours, 145th Street other times (125th Street) ← toward 168th Street ( toward 207th Street late nights) (125th Street)
	Northbound express	← do not stop here
	Southbound express	→ do not stop here →
	Southbound local	→ toward Brighton Beach (110th Street) → → toward Euclid Avenue ( toward Far Rockaway late nights) (110th Street) →
	Side platform, doors will open on the right

This underground station, opened on September 10, 1932, has four tracks and two side platforms. The platforms have name tablets reading "116TH ST." in white sans serif lettering on a blue background and black border, but no trim line. Small direction and name signs reading "116" in white lettering on a black border run at regular intervals. There are blue I-beam columns that run along both platforms at regular intervals with every other one having the standard black station name plate in white lettering.

Each platform has one same-level fare control area at their extreme south ends. Each one has a turnstile bank and two staircases to the street. The southbound platform has a token booth while the northbound platform does not, having been closed in 2010 and removed several years later. The exits on the northbound platform go up to either eastern corners of 116th Street and Eighth Avenue while the exits on the southbound platform go up to either western corners.

There are no crossovers or crossunders. As a result, this station and 135th Street are the only two on the Eighth Avenue Line north of 59th Street that do not permit free transfers between opposite directions. There is evidence on both sides of an abandoned part-time entrance at the north end that led to West 118th Street.

References

↑ New York Times, List of the 28 Stations on the New Eighth Ave Line, September 10, 1932, page 6
↑ "Facts and Figures: Annual Subway Ridership". Metropolitan Transportation Authority. Retrieved 2015-03-27.

External links

Wikimedia Commons has media related to 116th Street (IND Eighth Avenue Line).

nycsubway.org—IND Eighth Avenue: 116th Street
Station Reporter — B Train
Station Reporter — C Train
The Subway Nut — 116th Street Pictures
116th Street entrance at northwest from Google Maps Street View

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