125th Street (IND Eighth Avenue Line) - Station Layout

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.