116 Street (2,3) - The SubwayNut

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116th Street is a simple Lenox Avenue line station. The station has two side platforms and was recently renovated (1998-1999). Fare control is along the side platforms in the middle and each area has the customary 2 staircases up to either side of 116 Street. The station still has terra cotta cartouches in the trim. Along the trim for the rest of the station are modern designs and backdrops for 116. All the name tablets are in a modern mosaic design.

Arts For Transit at 116th Street
The Movers and Shakers, 1999, Glass Mosaic,
By Vincent Smith


(116n21) Looking accros the tracks at 116 Street towards the arts for transit installation on the uptown platform.Photo by Jeremiah Cox, 24 June, 2008	(116n22) An entrance for Downtown & Brooklyn at 116 Street viewed from wide Lenox Avenue.Photo by Jeremiah Cox, 24 June, 2008	(116n23) Looking accross Lenox Avenue to the other entrance 116 Street.Photo by Jeremiah Cox, 24 June, 2008	(116n24) A restored terra cotta cartouche outside of fare control at 116 Street after going down one of the station's entrance staircases.Photo by Jeremiah Cox, 24 June, 2008

(116n25) A High Exit turnstile at the base to one of the staircases up ot the street at 116 Street.Photo by Jeremiah Cox, 24 June, 2008	(116n26) The three turnstiles into the system on the uptown platform at 116 Street.Photo by Jeremiah Cox, 24 June, 2008	(116n27) Just after the fare control area the uptown platform gets quite a bit narrower at 116 Street.Photo by Jeremiah Cox, 24 June, 2008	(116n28) Another blue with white text restored 116 terra cotta cartouche.Photo by Jeremiah Cox, 24 June, 2008

(116n29) Looking down towards an northern end of the platform at 116 Street.Photo by Jeremiah Cox, 24 June, 2008	(116n210) 116 Street only has these modern trying to look retro name tablets, none of the old ones seem to survive.Photo by Jeremiah Cox, 24 June, 2008	(116n211) A sign above a door at 116 Street still has a terra cotta plaque over it, but what ever letters were on it have been removed.Photo by Jeremiah Cox, 24 June, 2008	(116n212) The fare control area on the uptown platform at 116 Street viewed from inside fare control. There are high exit gates on either end of the area that are closer to the stairs and a bank of three turnstiles in the middle.Photo by Jeremiah Cox, 24 June, 2008

(116n213) Another view towards an end of the uptown platform at 116 Street.Photo by Jeremiah Cox, 24 June, 2008	(116n214) Another modern take on the name tablet at 116 Street.Photo by Jeremiah Cox, 24 June, 2008	(116n215) A view of the arts for transit mosaic at 116 Street old terra cotta cartouches are still above it.Photo by Jeremiah Cox, 24 June, 2008	(116n216) The downtown platform gets quite narrow at 116 Street as an end of it is approached.Photo by Jeremiah Cox, 24 June, 2008