110th Street–Malcolm X Plaza station

The 110th Street–Malcolm X Plaza station serves as the southern gateway to Harlem and anchors the northern boundary of Central Park. This station is one of the original stops in the New York City subway system, first opening to the public in November 1904 as part of the Interborough Rapid Transit Company line. For over a century, it was known as the Central Park North–110th Street station, a name that highlighted its geographic position at the intersection of the park and the neighborhood. In August 2025, the station was officially renamed to honor the civil rights leader Malcolm X. This change was enacted during the fifty-first annual Harlem Week to acknowledge the leader's deep personal and political ties to the community. Malcolm X lived in Harlem for more than a decade, and this station sits directly adjacent to the existing Malcolm Shabazz Plaza, creating a unified commemorative space at the entrance to the historic district. The station features an island platform design that reflects the early architectural style of the subway's first phase, including traditional tile and mosaic work that remains a hallmark of the city's earliest transit infrastructure. While the station has undergone various platform extensions and modernizations over the last century to accommodate increasing ridership, the renaming marks a shift toward using the transit system as a site of civic memory. It stands today as a permanent landmark intended to remind those passing through of the area's role as a center for Black culture, thought, and civil rights history.