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96th Street is a simple stacked IND Central Park West Line Stop. The two side platforms have the typical layout of all the local stops on Central Park West. The Uptown trains are on the upper level, the downtown ones on the lower. All fare control areas are directly along the uptown platform, with staircases only to the west (non-park side) of Central Park West. The name tablets are Blue with a black border and "96" tiling almost forming the stations trim although no trim tiling is present.

The station has two exits currently in operation, one is at the extreme northern end of the station and is an unstaffed exit with regular and high turnstiles up to two streestairs up to the NW and SW corners of 97th Street & Central Park West. This leads to a single staircase down to the Downtown platform. This exit had a token booth until 2010, and the fare control area is larger than the other still open exit.

The other still open exit is the 24 hour booth right at the middle of the platform leading to a single streetstair up to the SW corner 96th Street & Central Park West. This fare control area is rather small and cramped and after the turnstiles passengers can either go down a staircase to the Downtown platform or up a few steps (it's slightly sunken from this platform) to reach the uptown platform.

There was at some point an exit to 95 Street that has now been completely closed but some arrows beneath name tablets still point to it. This exit had two now slabbed over streetstairs up to the SW and NW corners of Central Park West and 95 Street, there was also one now closed staircase down to the downtown platform.
Photos 1 & 2: December 9, 2003; 3: 2004; 4-15: July 15, 2008; 16-18: June 10, 2004; 19-24: November 10, 2013

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