96 Street (6, 4 Late Nights)

96 Street is a deeper Lexington Avenue Line Local Station due to the presence of Carnegie Hill above ground. The stop is located in an area where the local tracks are above the express tracks and they run underneath the station. The southern ends of the two platforms where they were extended are have sloping curving ceilings, evidence that this portion was mined from tunnels and not built in the cut-in-cover method, (at the transition area on the uptown platform is a ladder) the rest of the platforms have much higher ceilings and are columns-less except where the mezzanine area is towards the northern end of the platform set within the roof of the station. It is accessed by two staircases up from each platform. Over the tracks is a waiting area with some benches overlooking some arched windows offering views of the tracks. There is also a newsstand. To exit the station there are High Turnstiles nearer to the platform stairs and a central bank of turnstiles facing the token booth. Street stairs lead up to all 4 corners of Lexington Avenue and 96 Street.

For decorations, the stop was a pioneer because when it was renovated in the mid-1990s, it was the first place where the circular designs were put in the medal work of fare control barriers (almost all replaced between 1994 and 1997 for the adaptation of MetroCard's new turnstiles) now at many other subway stations particularly on the IRT. This design is also used for second name tablet forms and some other decorative mosaics on in the station. The original trimline line of yellow and green and with little blue 96s inside it and the blue 96th Street name tablets that are suspended by tiles were kept intact.
1: September 16, 2005; 2 & 3: March 34, 2007; 4-8: July 28, 2009; 9-16: August 12, 2011