103rd Street station (IRT Lexington Avenue Line)
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Platforms | 2 side platforms | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Tracks | 4 | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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Opened | July 17, 1918[3] | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Opposite- direction transfer | Yes | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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2023 | 2,601,308[4] 4.5% | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Rank | 136 out of 423[4] | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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The 103rd Street station is a local
This station was constructed as part of the Dual Contracts by the Interborough Rapid Transit Company and opened in 1918. It was renovated in 1990 and in 2015–2016.
History
Construction and opening
Following the completion of the
In 1913, as part of the Dual Contracts, which were signed on March 19, 1913,[7] the Public Service Commission planned to split the original Interborough Rapid Transit Company (IRT) system from looking like a "Z" system (as seen on a map) to an H-shaped system. The original system would be split into three segments: two north–south lines, carrying through trains over the Lexington Avenue and Broadway–Seventh Avenue Lines, and a west–east shuttle under 42nd Street. This would form a roughly H-shaped system.[8][9] It was predicted that the subway extension would lead to the growth of the Upper East Side and the Bronx.[10][11]
The 103rd Street station opened on July 17, 1918, with service initially running between Grand Central–42nd Street and 167th Street via the line's local tracks.[3][12] On August 1, the "H system" was put into place, with through service beginning on the new east and west side trunk lines, and the institution of the 42nd Street Shuttle along the old connection between the sides.[13][14] The cost of the extension from Grand Central was $58 million.[15]
Later years
The city government took over the IRT's operations on June 12, 1940. This station was renovated in 1990.
The Downtown platform was renovated in 2015, with the placement of new white wall tiles, new floor tiles and benches. From January 26, 2016, to May 23, 2016, the Uptown platform was closed for renovation and was done in the same style as the Downtown platform. This was completed about a month earlier than planned.[21]
Station layout
Ground | Street level | Entrances/exits |
Mezzanine | Fare control, station agent, MetroCard machines | |
Platform level | Side platform | |
Northbound local | ← toward Pelham Bay Park or Parkchester (110th Street) ← toward Woodlawn late nights (110th Street) | |
Northbound express | ← do not stop here | |
Southbound express | do not stop here → | |
Southbound local | toward Brooklyn Bridge–City Hall (96th Street) → toward New Lots Avenue late nights (96th Street) → | |
Side platform |
This underground station has four tracks and two side platforms. The two center express tracks are used by the 4 and 5 trains during daytime hours.[22] The 6 stops here at all times, and the 4 stops here during late nights.[23][24] The station is between 110th Street to the north and 96th Street to the south.[25]
All other stations between
Both platforms have their original trim line, which has "103" tablets on it at regular intervals, and name tablets, which read "103RD STREET" in the original mosaic. Prior to the 1990 station renovation, mosaic tiles were used so as to depict the 103rd Street mosaic as a sign hanging down from a horizontal support beam above. These "signholders" were covered over in 1990. An emergency phone is present immediately to the south of the southbound local platform.
The 1990 ceramic artwork here is called Neo-Boriken by Nitza Tufiño, based on the neighborhood's Caribbean and Latin American heritage. According to the accompanying plaque, P.R.O.M.I.S.E. (Puerto Rican Organization for Growth Research Education and Self Sufficiency) helped to fund the murals.[26] This is one of two projects Tufiño made for MTA Arts & Design; the other, Westside Views – a community project for which she was the lead artist – can be found at 86th Street.[27]
Exits
The station's only entrance/exit is a
References
- ^ "Glossary". Second Avenue Subway Supplemental Draft Environmental Impact Statement (SDEIS) (PDF). Vol. 1. Metropolitan Transportation Authority. March 4, 2003. pp. 1–2. Archived from the original (PDF) on February 26, 2021. Retrieved January 1, 2021.
- ^ "Manhattan Bus Map" (PDF). Metropolitan Transportation Authority. July 2019. Retrieved December 1, 2020.
- ^ (PDF) from the original on December 14, 2021. Retrieved April 21, 2020.
- ^ a b "Annual Subway Ridership (2018–2023)". Metropolitan Transportation Authority. 2023. Retrieved April 20, 2024.
- ^ Walker, James Blaine (1918). Fifty Years of Rapid Transit — 1864 to 1917. New York, N.Y.: Law Printing. pp. 230–233. Retrieved November 6, 2016.
- from the original on May 4, 2022. Retrieved February 16, 2009.
A petition is being circulated among the residents and property owners of the section just south of the Grand Central Station, in Park and Lexington Avenues, protesting against the proposed abandonment of the construction of the Subway in Lexington Avenue, between Forty-third and Thirty-second Streets.
- (PDF) from the original on May 4, 2022. Retrieved January 11, 2018.
- (PDF) from the original on July 7, 2021. Retrieved November 10, 2017.
- ^ Engineering News-record. McGraw-Hill Publishing Company. 1916. p. 846. Archived from the original on May 4, 2022. Retrieved December 28, 2020.
- ^ Whitney, Travis H. (March 10, 1918). "The Seventh and Lexington Avenue Subways Will Revive Dormant Sections — Change in Operation That Will Transform Original Four-Tracked Subway Into Two Four-Tracked Systems and Double Present Capacity of the Interborough". The New York Times. p. 12. Archived from the original on May 4, 2022. Retrieved August 26, 2016.
- ^ "Public Service Commission Fixes July 15 For Opening of The New Seventh and Lexington Avenue Subway Lines — Will Afford Better Service and Less Crowding — Shuttle Service for Forty-Second Street — How the Various Lines of the Dual System Are Grouped for Operation and List of Stations on All Lines". The New York Times. May 19, 1918. p. 32. Archived from the original on May 4, 2022. Retrieved November 6, 2016.
- ^ "Lexington Subway to Operate To-day". New York Herald. July 17, 1918. p. 8. Retrieved May 30, 2023.
- ^ "Open New Subway Lines to Traffic; Called a Triumph — Great H System Put in Operation Marks an Era in Railroad Construction — No Hitch in the Plans — But Public Gropes Blindly to Find the Way in Maze of New Stations — Thousands Go Astray — Leaders in City's Life Hail Accomplishment of Great Task at Meeting at the Astor". The New York Times. August 2, 1918. p. 1. Archived from the original on January 6, 2021. Retrieved November 6, 2016.
- ^ "New "H" System Brings Worst Subway Jam". New-York Tribune. August 2, 1918. pp. 1, 6. Retrieved May 30, 2023.
- from the original on May 4, 2022. Retrieved January 8, 2017.
- from the original on January 7, 2022. Retrieved May 14, 2022.
- ProQuest 1248134780.
- from the original on April 25, 2022. Retrieved May 4, 2023.
- ^ ISSN 2574-5298. Retrieved May 5, 2023.
- from the original on April 28, 2022. Retrieved May 5, 2023.
- ^ "103rd Street - Full Service Restored - Planned Service Changes". mta.info. Metropolitan Transportation Authority. May 23, 2016. Archived from the original on February 11, 2019. Retrieved March 29, 2020.
- ^ OCLC 49777633 – via Google Books.
- ^ "4 Subway Timetable, Effective December 4, 2022". Metropolitan Transportation Authority. Retrieved August 26, 2023.
- ^ "6 Subway Timetable, Effective August 12, 2023". Metropolitan Transportation Authority. Retrieved August 26, 2023.
- ^ "Subway Map" (PDF). Metropolitan Transportation Authority. September 2021. Retrieved September 17, 2021.
- ^ "103rd Street – Nitza Tufiño – Neo-Boriken, 1990". web.mta.info. Metropolitan Transportation Authority. Archived from the original on September 1, 2019. Retrieved March 30, 2020.
- ^ "86th Street – Nitza Tufiño – Westside Views, 1989". web.mta.info. Metropolitan Transportation Authority. Archived from the original on August 19, 2020. Retrieved April 16, 2020.
- ^ "103rd Street Neighborhood Map". mta.info. Metropolitan Transportation Authority. April 2018. Archived from the original on December 27, 2021. Retrieved December 28, 2020.
External links
- nycsubway.org – IRT East Side Line: 103rd Street
- nycsubway.org — Neo-Boriken Artwork by Nitza Tufino (1990)
- Station Reporter — 4 Train
- Station Reporter — 6 Train
- MTA's Arts For Transit — 103rd Street (IRT Lexington Avenue Line)
- 103rd Street entrance from Google Maps Street View
- Platforms from Google Maps Street View