86th Street station
The 86th Street station is an abandoned station located in the Park Avenue Tunnel used by Metro-North Railroad. The station was built by the New York Central & Hudson River Railroad as part of an agreement with New York City.Photo: Wikimedia, Public domain.
- Opening hours: 24/7
- Type: Metro station
- Description: closed train station in Manhattan, New York
- Also known as: “86 St”
- Wheelchair access: yes
Places of Interest Nearby
Highlights include Central Park and Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum.
Central Park
Photo: Ed Yourdon, CC BY-SA 2.0.
A vast green swath of open space in the heart of Manhattan, Central Park is a district in its own right, neatly separating the Upper East Side from the Upper West Side, stretching from Midtown at the southern end to Harlem at the north.
Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum
Museum
Photo: Jean-Christophe BENOIST, CC BY 3.0.
The Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum, often referred to as The Guggenheim, is an art museum at 1071 Fifth Avenue between 88th and 89th Streets on the Upper East Side of Manhattan in New York City. Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum is situated 2,700 feet northwest of 86th Street station.
American Museum of Natural History
Museum
Photo: Gigi alt, CC BY-SA 3.0.
The American Museum of Natural History is a natural history museum on the Upper West Side of Manhattan in New York City. Located in Theodore Roosevelt Park, across the street from Central Park, the museum complex comprises 21 interconnected buildings housing 45 permanent exhibition halls, in addition to a planetarium and a library. American Museum of Natural History is situated 1¼ miles west of 86th Street station.
Places in the Area
Nearby places include Upper East Side and Lenox Hill.
Upper East Side
Photo: Alex Proimos, CC BY 2.0.
The Upper East Side of Manhattan is one of the city's wealthiest districts. Spanning the stretch of island between 59th Street to 96th Street east of Central Park, the neighborhoods of Lenox Hill, Yorkville, and Carnegie Hill are full of luxurious townhouses and apartment buildings on some of the most affluent addresses in New York.
Lenox Hill
Neighborhood
Photo: Wikimedia, CC BY-SA 2.0.
Lenox Hill is a neighborhood on the Upper East Side of Manhattan in New York City. It forms the lower section of the Upper East Side, east of Park Avenue in the 60s and 70s.
Astoria
Neighborhood
Photo: Dinker022089, CC BY-SA 4.0.
Astoria is a neighborhood in the western portion of the New York City borough of Queens. Astoria is bounded by the East River and is adjacent to four other Queens neighborhoods: Long Island City to the southwest, Sunnyside to the southeast, and Woodside and East Elmhurst to the east.
86th Street station
- Categories: former railway station, railway station, station, and transportation
- Location: Manhattan, New York, Mid-Atlantic, United States, North America
- View on OpenStreetMap
Latitude
40.77789° or 40° 46′ 40″ northLongitude
-73.95179° or 73° 57′ 6″ westOperator
New York City Transit AuthorityNetwork
NYC SubwayOpen location code
87G8Q2HX+57OpenStreetMap ID
node 4587293106OpenStreetMap feature
public_transport=stationOpenStreetMap feature
railway=stationOpenStreetMap attribute
wheelchair=yesWikidata ID
Q58814788
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In Other Languages
From French to Korean—“86th Street station” goes by many names.
- French: “86th Street”
- French: “gare de 86th Street”
- Korean: “86번가”
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