86th Street

86th Street   New York City Subway rapid transit station
Local downtown platform
Station statistics
Address	East 86th Street & Lexington Avenue New York, NY 10028
Borough	Manhattan
Locale	Upper East Side
Coordinates	40°46′46″N 73°57′20″W / 40.779469°N 73.955626°W / 40.779469; -73.955626Coordinates: 40°46′46″N 73°57′20″W / 40.779469°N 73.955626°W / 40.779469; -73.955626
Division	A (IRT)
Line	IRT Lexington Avenue Line
Services	4  (all times)       5  (all except late nights)       6  (all times) <6> (weekdays until 8:45 p.m., peak direction)
Connection	New York City Bus: M86, M98, M101, M102, M103
Structure	Underground
Levels	2
Platforms	4 side platforms (2 on each level)
Tracks	4 (2 on each level)
Other information
Opened	July 17, 1918; 93 years ago (July 17, 1918)
Traffic
Passengers (2011)	19,425,347[1]  1.5%
Rank	9 out of 421
Station succession
Next north	96th Street (local): 4  6  <6> 125th Street (express): 4  5
Next south	77th Street (local): 4  6  <6> 59th Street (express): 4  5
86th Street Subway Station (Dual System IRT)
U.S. National Register of Historic Places
MPS:	New York City Subway System MPS
NRHP Reference#:	05000236[2]
Added to NRHP:	March 30, 2005
Station service legend Symbol Description Stops in station at all times Stops all times except late nights Stops late nights only Stops late nights and weekends only Stops weekdays only Stops all times except rush hours in the peak direction Stops daily except rush hours in the peak direction Stops rush hours only Stops rush hours in the peak direction only Station is closed (Details about time periods)

86th Street is an express station on the IRT Lexington Avenue Line of the New York City Subway. Located at the intersection of Lexington Avenue and 86th Street on the Upper East Side, it is served by the 4 and 6 trains at all times, the 5 train at all times except late nights, and the <6> during weekdays in peak direction.

Description

This underground station, opened on July 17, 1918 as part of an expansion of the IRT Lexington Avenue Line north of Grand Central - 42nd Street, is built on two levels. Each level has two tracks and two side platforms. The upper level serves the local 6 trains while the lower level serves the express 4 and 5 trains. During late night hours, all service on the Lexington Avenue Line is local and the lower level is thus closed. Three staircases connect the level on each side.

There are no crossovers or crossunders between the platforms, making this one of only two express stations in the system where free transfers between opposite directions are not possible (the other is Nostrand Avenue on the IND Fulton Street Line. Each platform has its original Dual Contracts trim line consisting mostly of yellows and browns. Small "86" tablets in a circle run along this trim line. The name tablets have "86TH STREET" in white Times New Roman font on a reddish brown background with a light brown inner boarder and green outer boarder. Dark blue columns run along all four platforms at regular intervals.

This station underwent two renovations. The first took place with the opening of a Gimbels department store directly above in the early 1970s. The renovation took place mostly in the fare control areas. The second renovation was completed in Fall 2005. It consisted of repainting the columns from red to dark blue and removal of the information devices on the upper levels that gave advance notice of an approaching express train on the lower levels. These were later replaced with countdown clocks performing the same function.^[3][4]

Each upper level platform has one same-level fare control area in the center. The southbound side has a turnstile bank, token booth, two staircases going up to southwest corner of East 86th Street and Lexington Avenue, and two more that are built inside a Best Buy store on the northwest corner of the same intersection. The northbound fare control has an unstaffed turnstile bank and two staircases going up to the southeast corner of East 86th Street and Lexington Avenue. Two more staircases are built inside a shopping arcade that is in the basement of a Petco store on the northeast corner of the same intersection.

The 2004 artwork here is called Happy City by Peter Sis. It consists of four different glass and etched stone mosaic murals in the shapes of huge eyes surrounded by various animals and objects. They are located at each top of the four staircases near the fare control areas that go down to the lower level express platforms.

This station was added to the National Register of Historic Places on March 30, 2005.

Notable places nearby

• Church of St. Ignatius Loyola
• Cooper–Hewitt, National Design Museum
• Metropolitan Museum of Art
• National Academy of Design
• Neue Galerie New York
• Regis High School
• Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum

Image gallery

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  Name tablet

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  Trim line tablet

References

External links

Wikimedia Commons has media related to: 86th Street (IRT Lexington Avenue Line)

• nycsubway.org — IRT East Side Line: 86th Street
• nycsubway.org — Happy City Artwork by Peter Sis (2004)
• Station Reporter — 4 Train
• Station Reporter — 5 Train
• Station Reporter — 6 Train
• MTA's Arts For Transit — 86th Street (IRT Lexington Avenue Line)
• 86th Street northbound entrance from Google Maps Street View
• 86th Street southbound entrance from Google Maps Street View

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