103rd Street (IRT Lexington Avenue Line)

Infobox NYCS
name = 103rd Street


bg_color = #007527
line = IRT Lexington Avenue Line
service = Lexington local
platforms = 2 side platforms
tracks = 4
passengers=4.280 million
pass_year=2006
pass_percent=5
locale = East Harlem
borough = Manhattan
open_date = July 17, 1918
north_station = 110th Street
north_line = IRT Lexington Avenue Line
north_service = Lexington local
south_station = 96th Street
south_line = IRT Lexington Avenue Line
south_service = Lexington local

103rd Street is a station on the IRT Lexington Avenue Line of the New York City Subway. Located at the intersection of Lexington Avenue and 103rd Street in Harlem, it is served by the NYCS service|6 train at all times, and the NYCS service|4 train late nights.

The station has two side platforms, with the express tracks in the middle, and a mezzanine crossover. There is only one exit from each platform, which is placed close to the south end of the platform. As a result, passengers alighting at this station generally congregate at the front door of the ninth car of a 10-car train traveling uptown, which opens most immediately opposite the platform exit. On a train traveling south, the equivalent door is the last door of the second car. Exits from the mezzanine extend to the southeast and southwest corners of 103rd Street and Lexington Avenue.

The station has recently been renovated. The featured artwork is a 1990 ceramic entitled "Nitza, to find it". Mosaics indicating the uptown and downtown directions are also present. The original mosaic was a metaphor for an actual hanging sign, with two strips of mosaic tile representing the vertical bars above the sign. In the renovation, the vertical bars were cut in two and the metaphor was lost.

External links

*NYCsubway ref|http://www.nycsubway.org/perl/stations?5:3110|IRT East Side Line|103rd Street
*Station Reporter — [http://www.stationreporter.net/6train.htm 6 Train]