125th Street (IND Eighth Avenue Line)

For the demolished station actually at 125th Street and Eighth Avenue, see 125th Street (IRT Ninth Avenue Line).

125th Street

New York City Subway rapid transit station

Street stair

Station statistics

Address

West 125th Street & Saint Nicholas Avenue
New York, NY 10027

Borough

Manhattan

Locale

Harlem

Coordinates

40°48′39″N 73°57′10″W / 40.810756°N 73.952665°WCoordinates: 40°48′39″N 73°57′10″W / 40.810756°N 73.952665°W

Division

B (IND)

Line

IND Eighth Avenue Line

Services

      A (all times)
      B (weekdays until 11:00 p.m.)
      C (all except late nights)
      D (all times)

Transit connections

NYCT Bus: M3,

M60 SBS, M100, M101, Bx15

Structure

Underground

Platforms

2 island platforms
cross-platform interchange

Tracks

Other information

Opened

September 10, 1932^[1]

Accessible

Wireless service

^[2]

Traffic

Passengers (2015)

9,558,837^[3]

2.3%

Rank

33 out of 422

Station succession

Next north

135th Street (local): A B C
145th Street (express): A
145th Street (Concourse express): D

Next south

116th Street (local): A B C
59th Street–Columbus Circle (express): A D

north

168th Street (via 8th): A C
161st Street–Yankee Stadium (via Concourse local): B D
Kingsbridge Road (via Concourse express): D
none: B

south

59th Street–Columbus Circle: A B C D

Station service legend
Symbol	Description
	Stops all times except late nights
	Stops all times
	Stops late nights only
	Stops rush hours only
	Stops rush hours in the peak direction only
	Stops weekdays only

Location
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125th Street is an express station on the IND Eighth Avenue Line of the New York City Subway. Located at the intersection of 125th Street and St. Nicholas Avenue in Manhattan, it is served by the A and D trains at all times, by the C train at all times except late nights, and by the B train on weekdays.

Nearby landmarks and points of interest include the Apollo Theater and the Touro College of Osteopathic Medicine.

History

125th Street opened on September 10, 1932, along with the rest of the IND Eighth Avenue Line from Chambers Street to 207th Street^[1]^[4]

In 1981, the MTA listed the station among the 69 most deteriorated stations in the subway system.^[5] The station was renovated in the 1980s, during which two stairs to each platform at the north end were removed and the platforms' original white floor tiling was replaced.^[6] Another renovation later made restored the closed staircases and made station ADA-accessible with the installation of elevators near the middle of the platforms.

Station layout

Track layout

Legend

to 145 St

Storage tracks

to 135 St

to 116 St

to 59 St

G	Street Level	Exit/ Entrance
M	Mezzanine	Fare control, station agents, to exits (Elevator on SW corner of 125th Street and Saint Nicholas Avenue)
P Platform level	Northbound local	← toward Bedford Park Boulevard rush hours, 145th Street other times (135th Street) ← toward 168th Street ( toward 207th Street late nights) (135th Street)
	Island platform, doors will open on the left, right
	Northbound express	← toward 207th Street (145th Street) ← toward Norwood–205th Street (145th Street)
	Southbound express	→ toward Lefferts Boulevard or Far Rockaway all except nights, or Rockaway Park PM rush hours (59th Street–Columbus Circle) → → toward Coney Island–Stillwell Avenue (59th Street–Columbus Circle) →
	Island platform, doors will open on the left, right
	Southbound local	→ toward Brighton Beach (116th Street) → → toward Euclid Avenue ( toward Far Rockaway late nights) (116th Street) →

The outer track wall tiles have a Prussian green trim line with a black border with small "125" signs in white lettering on a black background beneath it. Both platforms have one line of green i-beam columns that run at regular intervals for their entire lengths except for a small sections at either ends. Every other column has the standard black station name plate in white lettering.

The station has a mezzanine above the tracks at the Southern end and platforms that connect both fare control areas at either ends. There are five staircases to each platform and large-scale photos of Harlem in the 1920s and 1930s.

The full-time fare control area is at the south end of the mezzanine and has a turnstile bank, token booth, and four staircases going up to all four corners of 125th Street and Saint Nicholas Avenue and one elevator to the southwest corner. The other fare control area at the north end is unstaffed, containing full height turnstiles and two staircases going up to either southern corners of 127th Street and Saint Nicholas Avenue. There is also evidence of two closed exit stairs going up to 126th Street, one on each side of the mezzanine.^[6] One of the staircases led directly into the basement of a business that existed at street level. There are also two additional closed exits at the south end of the station, at the southeast and northwest corners of 124th Street and Saint Nicholas Avenue.^[6]

The next express station to the south, 59th Street–Columbus Circle, is 3.35 miles (5.391 km) away with seven local stations in between. This is the longest distance between two express stops in the system.

References

1 2 New York Times, List of the 28 Stations on the New Eighth Ave Line, September 10, 1932, page 6
↑ "NYC Subway Wireless – Active Stations". Transit Wireless Wifi. Retrieved 2016-05-18.
↑ "Facts and Figures: Annual Subway Ridership". Metropolitan Transportation Authority. Retrieved 2016-04-18.
↑ Crowell, Paul (September 10, 1932). "Gay Midnight Crowd Rides First Trains In The New Subway: Throngs at Station an Hour Before Time, Rush Turnstiles When Chains are Dropped". New York Times. Retrieved 8 November 2015.
↑ Gargan, Edward A. (June 11, 1981). "AGENCY LISTS ITS 69 MOST DETERIORATED SUBWAY STATIONS". The New York Times. Retrieved 13 August 2016.
1 2 3 "Review of the A and C Lines" (PDF). Metropolitan Transportation Authority. December 11, 2015. Retrieved 19 January 2016.

External links

Wikimedia Commons has media related to 125th Street (IND Eighth Avenue Line).

nycsubway.org – IND 8th Avenue: 125th Street
Station Reporter — A Lefferts
Station Reporter — A Rockaway
Station Reporter — B Train
Station Reporter — C Train
Station Reporter — D Train
The Subway Nut — 125th Street Pictures
125th Street entrance at southwest corner from Google Maps Street View
127th Street entrance at southwest corner from Google Maps Street View
Platforms from Google Maps Street View
Video on YouTube of the express run from 59th St. to 125th St.

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See also Lists by borough (The Bronx Brooklyn Manhattan Queens) Accessible Closed Terminals Transfer Commons category Stations and line segments in italics are closed or demolished. Track connections to other lines' terminals are displayed in brackets. ~~Struck through~~ passenger track connections are closed or unused in regular service.

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