96th Street is a local station on the IND Eighth Avenue Line of the New York City Subway. It is served by the C train at all except late nights when the A train replaces it. The B train provides additional service on weekdays.
This underground station, opened on September 10, 1932, has two levels with northbound trains using the upper level and southbound trains using the lower level. Each level has one side platform to the west of two tracks. The two express tracks that bypass this station are used by the A train during daytime hours and the D train at all times.
The platforms have no trim line, but name tablets read "96TH ST." in white sans serif font on a blue background and black border. Small directional signs in white numbering on a black border are placed below the name tablets. They indicate a now closed fare control area to 95th Street on the extreme south end of the upper level platform. "96" signs in the same format as the directional signs run along the platform walls at regular intervals at the same level as the name tablets. Blue columns run along both platforms at regular intervals with alternating ones having the standard black station name plate in white numbering.
All fare control areas are on the upper level platform and two staircases, one adjacent to each area, go down to the lower level. The full-time one is at the center of the platform. A staircase of four steps go down to a bank of three turnstiles that lead to a token booth and one staircase going up to the southwest corner of 96th Street and Central Park West. The other fare control area at the extreme north end is unstaffed, containing High Entry/Exit Turnstiles and two staircases going up to either western corners of 97th Street and Central Park West. The northwest staircase was relocated with a longer passageway due to the widening of 97th Street.
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