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86th Street (Second Avenue Subway)

86th Street
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New York City Subway rapid transit station
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Platform level, with two specially designed R160 Q trains
Station statistics
Address 86th Street & Second Avenue
New York, NY 10028
Borough Manhattan
Locale Upper East Side, Yorkville
Coordinates 40°46′40.3″N 73°57′6.3″W / 40.777861°N 73.951750°W / 40.777861; -73.951750Coordinates: 40°46′40.3″N 73°57′6.3″W / 40.777861°N 73.951750°W / 40.777861; -73.951750
Division B (IND)
Line       IND Second Avenue Line
Services       N selected rush-hour trips (selected rush-hour trips)
      Q all times (all times)
Transit connections Bus transport NYCT Bus: M15 (SB), M15 SBS (SB), M86 SBS
Structure Underground
Platforms 1 island platform
Tracks 2
Other information
Opened January 1, 2017; 2 months ago (2017-01-01)
Accessible This station is compliant with the Americans with Disabilities Act of 1990
Wireless service Wi-Fi and cellular service is provided at this station
Station succession


Next adjacent station compliant with the Americans with Disabilities Act of 1990 north 96th Street: N selected rush-hour trips Q all times
Next adjacent station compliant with the Americans with Disabilities Act of 1990 south 72nd Street: N selected rush-hour trips Q all times

86th Street is a station on the first phase of the Second Avenue Line of the New York City Subway. Located at the intersection of Second Avenue and 86th Street on the Upper East Side, it opened on January 1, 2017, with the Q train providing full-time service, as well as some N service during rush hours. There are two tracks and an island platform.

The 86th Street station is served by the Q train at all times, and some N trains during rush hours. It has two tracks and an island platform. The station is built so that it is more wide open than most other underground stations in the system; its architecture, along with two other Second Avenue Subway stations, was compared to a Washington Metro station by Dr. Michael Horodniceanu, President of MTA Capital Construction. The platform is 93 feet (28 m) below ground. The platform for the 86th Street station, like the other Second Avenue Subway stations, is 27.8 feet (8.5 m) wide.

The station has air-cooling systems to make it at least 10 °F (6 °C) cooler than other subway stations during the summer. This requires the station to have large ventilation and ancillary buildings, rather than traditional subway grates. The station is also compliant with current fire codes, whereas most existing stations are not. Additionally, the station is waterproofed with concrete liners and fully drained.

This station is one of two on the N with the name "86th Street"; the other station is in Gravesend, Brooklyn.


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