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103rd Street   New York City Subway rapid transit station
Station statistics
Address	East 103rd Street & Lexington Avenue New York, NY 10029
Borough	Manhattan
Locale	Spanish Harlem
Coordinates	40°47′25″N 73°56′52″W / 40.79029°N 73.947687°W / 40.79029; -73.947687Coordinates: 40°47′25″N 73°56′52″W / 40.79029°N 73.947687°W / 40.79029; -73.947687
Division	A (IRT)
Line	IRT Lexington Avenue Line
Services	4  (late nights)      6  (all times) <6>(weekdays until 8:45 p.m., peak direction)
Connection	New York City Bus: BxM1, M98, M101, M102, M103
Structure	Underground
Platforms	2 side platforms
Tracks	4
Other information
Opened	July 17, 1918
Traffic
Passengers (2008)	4.574 million[1][2] ▲ 3.88%
Rank	94 out of 422
Station succession
Next north	110th Street: 4  6  <6>
Next south	96th Street: 4  6  <6>
Station service legend Symbol Description Stops in station at all times Stops all times except late nights Stops late nights only Stops late nights and weekends only Stops weekdays only Stops all times except rush hours in the peak direction Stops all times except weekdays Stops rush hours only Stops rush hours in the peak direction only Station is closed (Details about time periods)

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

References

External links

• nycsubway.org — IRT East Side Line: 103rd Street
• Station Reporter — 6 Train
• MTA's Arts For Transit — 103rd Street

1977 image of mosaic