116th Street station (IND Eighth Avenue Line)

The 116th Street station 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 Harlem, Manhattan, it is served by the B train on weekdays, the C train at all times except nights, and the A train during late nights only.
==Station layout==
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 midnight 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.
There are no crossovers or crossunders between the two platforms. As a result, this station and 135th Street are the only two stations on the Eighth Avenue Line north of 59th Street that do not permit free transfers between opposite directions.
The station is planned to be rehabilitated as part of the 2015–2019 MTA Capital Program.
===Exits===
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:
Exit location 	Exit Type	Number of exits	Platform served
NW corner of Frederick Douglass Boulevard and West 116th Street	Staircase	1 	Southbound
SW corner of Frederick Douglass Boulevard and West 116th Street	Staircase	1 	Southbound
NE corner of Frederick Douglass Boulevard and West 116th Street	Staircase	1 	Northbound
SE corner of Frederick Douglass Boulevard and West 116th Street	Staircase	1 	Northbound
Both platforms also had a part-time entrance/exit at the north end to both northern corners of 118th Street and Fredrick Douglass Boulevard, with the northbound platform's entrance/exit leading to the northeastern corner and the southbound platform's entrance/exit leading to the northwestern corner.
==Nearby points of interest==
*East Campus at Columbia University
*Morningside Park
== References ==
== External links ==
* 
* Station Reporter — B Train
* Station Reporter — C Train
* The Subway Nut — 116th Street Pictures 
* 116th Street entrance at northwest from Google Maps Street View
* Platform from Google Maps Street View
Category:IND Eighth Avenue Line stations
Category:Eighth Avenue (Manhattan)
Category:New York City Subway stations in Manhattan
Category:New York City Subway stations located underground
Category:Railway stations in the United States opened in 1932
Category:Harlem
Category:1932 establishments in New York City