116th Street is a simple Lenox Avenue line station. The station has two side platforms and was renovated between 1998-1999. Fare control is along the side platforms in the middle and each area has the customary 2 staircases one up to either side of 116 Street and Lenox Avenue. 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.
Photos 1-16: June 24, 2008; 17-20: March 24, 2013
The Movers and Shakers, 1999, Glass Mosaic,
By Vincent Smith
Looking accros the tracks at 116 Street towards the arts for transit installation on the uptown platform.
An entrance for Downtown & Brooklyn at 116 Street viewed from wide Lenox Avenue.
Looking accross Lenox Avenue to the other entrance 116 Street.
A restored terra cotta cartouche outside of fare control at 116 Street after going down one of the station's entrance staircases.
A High Exit turnstile at the base to one of the staircases up ot the street at 116 Street.
The three turnstiles into the system on the uptown platform at 116 Street.
Just after the fare control area the uptown platform gets quite a bit narrower at 116 Street.
Another blue with white text restored 116 terra cotta cartouche.
Looking down towards an northern end of the platform at 116 Street.
116 Street only has these modern trying to look retro name tablets, none of the old ones seem to survive.
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.
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.
Another view towards an end of the uptown platform at 116 Street.
Another modern take on the name tablet at 116 Street.
A view of the arts for transit mosaic at 116 Street old terra cotta cartouches are still above it.
The downtown platform gets quite narrow at 116 Street as an end of it is approached.
The now unstaffed Uptown platform entrance
One end of the Uptown platform
Shuttle buses replace service to the Bronx today, both 2 and 3 trains are terminating at Harlem-148 St as the countdown clock says (2 trains are skipping the tiny 145 Street station)
