The 96th Street station is a station on the IND Second Avenue Line of the New York City Subway. Located at the intersection of Second Avenue and 96th Street on the border of the Upper East Side/Yorkvi
Platform level
Mezzanine level
Work above ground, November 2012
Station cavern construction in December 2014
The 86th Street station is a station on the first phase of the Second Avenue Line of the New York City Subway. Located at the intersection of Second Avenue and 86th Street, in the Yorkville section of
96th Street station (Second Avenue Subway)
…and one northbound a.m. R train during rush hours. This station is the northern terminus of the Second Avenue Subway; the next stop to the south is 86th Street. It has two tracks and an island platform. The station is built so that it is more wide open than most other underground subway stations in the system…
Platform level, with two specially designed R160 Q trains. On the beam above the stairs is the word "Excelsior", the New York state motto, meaning "ever upward".
Ancillary building
Vestibule for the two sets of escalator entrances at Entrance 2
Tunnel portal at edge of station cavern