  We investigate the long tim behavior of the following efficient second order
in time scheme for the 2D Navier-Stokes equation in a periodic box: $$
\frac{3\omega^{n+1}-4\omega^n+\omega^{n-1}}{2k} +
\nabla^\perp(2\psi^n-\psi^{n-1})\cdot\nabla(2\omega^n-\omega^{n-1}) -
\nu\Delta\omega^{n+1} = f^{n+1}, \quad -\Delta \psi^n = \om^n. $$ The scheme is
a combination of a 2nd order in time backward-differentiation (BDF) and a
special explicit Adams-Bashforth treatment of the advection term. Therefore
only a linear constant coefficient Poisson type problem needs to be solved at
each time step. We prove uniform in time bounds on this scheme in $\dL2$,
$\dH1$ and $\dot{H}^2_{per}$ provided that the time-step is sufficiently small.
These time uniform estimates further lead to the convergence of long time
statistics (stationary statistical properties) of the scheme to that of the NSE
itself at vanishing time-step. Fully discrete schemes with either Galerkin
Fourier or collocation Fourier spectral method are also discussed.
