Your favorite 'best preserved' stations

The Avenue H station on the Brighton Line, built during the very early 1900s, has been granted Landmark status. As a result, the MTA has been forced to drop its plan for demolition, and will instead "refurbish" the structure (which means you'd better see it before they do).

Keeping in mind the fact that the MTA's efforts at "station revitalization" have had extremely mixed results. . . .

Does anyone have a favorite candidate (or two) for the title of "Best Preserved, Least Altered from its Original Design, and Still in Daily Use" subway station?

Does anyone have a favorite candidate (or two) for the title of "Best Preserved, Least Altered from its Original Design, and Still in Daily Use" subway station?

Well, I think we can all agree that Chambers Street on the Nassau line is probably the "least altered" station. I don't think ANYTHING has been done at that station since the 1920's (aside from demolishing the southbound "local" platform when they realigned the Lexington line's loca tracks into it's former space).

Many of the Canarsie line's stations also are pretty well preserved also.

As for MTA "messing" stations up in renovations, that was certainly true in the 60's, 70's, and even the 80's, but that is not really the case anymore.
We can all agree that the "cement blocking" up of the 4th Ave subway line's stations in Brooklyn, and atrocities like 137th St on the west side IRT and Hoyt are horrible renovations, that destroyed historic stations, but remember, those were done in the 70's and 80's.

However, in the 90's and currently, the MTA did a wonderful job of preserving stations, and even recreating historic aspects to stations where it was lost, in many of its renovations.

33rd Street on the 6 is a great example. The Broadway line in Manhattan has had the "mistakes of the past" removed recently, when they took all the cement block tile from the 70's down, and restored the historic mosaics underneath. Atlantic Ave on the IRT is a great example of where they even recreated historic mosaics. And then stations like Fulton St and Broad St on the Nassau line, and 8th Ave on the L actually look better now than when they first opened! They even fit in better with the other stations on their perspecitve lines better now too with the "faux" retro mosaics they recreated there.