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 late nights, and the B train on weekdays. Late nights only the A train stops here.
This underground station, opened on September 10, 1932, has four tracks and two side platforms. The two center express tracks are used by the A during daytime hours and the D at all times. 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, token booth, and two staircases to the street. The ones on the northbound platform go up to either eastern corners of 116th Street and Eighth Avenue while the ones 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.
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