79 Street is an opening day on the IRT station that has very few of its original molding features visible expect right around the fare control area and almost entirely outside of fare control. The rest of the platforms have the newer cinderblock looking cream color tiles with a pink trim line that says 79th St in it at regular intervals.
For exits each of the two side platforms on the four track line are fairly unique because the station when it opened was in an undeveloped potion of Manhattan and each platform was given only one street stair on catty corners, later a streetstair from the opposite side of 79 Street was added so this now leads to a High Entrance Turnstile on the downtown platform (the SW corner) and an exit only turnstile on the uptown (NE corner) one before a narrow fenced in passageway (where almost all of the original molding and tiling can be found, expect for a tiny portion on the downtown platform just south of the High Entrance Turnstile) leads to the small main fare control area where the turnstiles are and a still staffed token booth on the downtown platform only. Here there is a streetstair out to NW corner from the downtown platform of 79 Street and Broadway, and the SE corner from the uptown.
Photos 1: February 10, 2004; 2-4: June 10, 2007; 5-11: June 28, 2008; 12-14: July 1, 2008; 15-16: August 28, 2009; 17-36: June 8, 2011
Looking down towards one end of the platforms at 79 St
Approaching the High Entrance/Exit Gate on the downtown platform for the SW corner of 79th and Broadway
Across the 4 local tracks at 79 Street
Passengers wait in the only area of the station within fare control that has original tiling
79TH St written in the pink trimline
Looking through the fence at the walkway from the SW corner staircase to the main fare control area on the downtown platform
A 79 trimline wall relief with cornucopias surrounding the number, other stations have identical examples
Close up of 79 written on a faux mosaic column on the wall of the platform
Another view of the old tiling through the separation fence
The empty bench in front of the 'historic' waiting area before the platform wall becomes the 'modern' 1950s tiling
A mosaic 79 column is cut off my the newer tiling from the newer entrance staircase
A customer uses the token clerk on the downtown platform
The decorative reliefs in the ceiling above a bank of turnstiles
The pink trimline of the platform at 79th St
Approaching the fare control area on the uptown platform
The High Exit Only Turnstile is closer the NE corner staircase, a narrow fenced walkway connects it to the main area
The passageway outside of fare control makes the original mosaic and terra-cotta work look like their almost in a museum
Station Subway Lines (1989-2005)
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