103rd Street – Corona Plaza (IRT Flushing Line)

103rd Street – Corona Plaza
New York City Subway rapid transit station
Northbound platform
Station statistics
Address	103rd Street & Roosevelt Avenue Queens, NY 11368
Borough	Queens
Locale	Corona
Coordinates	40°44′59.37″N 73°51′45.84″W / 40.7498250°N 73.8627333°WCoordinates: 40°44′59.37″N 73°51′45.84″W / 40.7498250°N 73.8627333°W
Division	A (IRT)
Line	IRT Flushing Line
Services	7  (all times)
Transit connections	MTA Bus: Q23
Structure	Elevated
Platforms	2 side platforms
Tracks	3
Other information
Opened	April 21, 1917
Former/other names	Alburtis Avenue[1] 104th Street
Traffic
Passengers (2015)	6,527,196[2]  1%
Rank	67 out of 422
Station succession
Next north	111th Street: 7
Next south	Junction Boulevard: 7
Station service legend Symbol Description Stops all times
Location

103rd Street – Corona Plaza is a local station on the IRT Flushing Line of the New York City Subway. Located at the intersection of 103rd Street and Roosevelt Avenue, it is served by the 7 train at all times.

History

This station opened on April 21, 1917, as Alburtis Avenue, as the easternmost station of an extension of the Flushing line past Queensboro Plaza.^[1] It was later renamed 104th Street, giving the possibility of a sealed exit at the north end, before taking its current name of 103rd Street – Corona Plaza. This station still contains signs, which have been covered, showing Alburtis Avenue. This station was the eastern terminal for the joint BMT and IRT services on the line until the extension to 111th Street opened on October 13, 1925.^[1][3][4][5]

Station layout

P Platform level
	Side platform, doors will open on the right
	Southbound local	← toward 34th Street – Hudson Yards (Junction Boulevard)
	Peak-direction express	← does not stop here →
	Northbound local	→ toward Flushing – Main Street (111th Street) →
	Side platform, doors will open on the right
M	Mezzanine	to entrances/exits, station agent, MetroCard vending machines
G	Street Level	Entrances/Exits

Old-fashioned smaller signs on the northbound platform in April 2011.

This elevated station has three tracks and two side platforms. The center track is used by the rush hour peak direction <7> express service. Both platforms have beige windscreens and brown canopies supported by green frames and support columns in the center and green waist-high steel fences at both ends. The station names are in the standard black plates in white lettering, though some lampposts at both ends have their original white signs in black letting.^[5][6]

This station's only entrance-exit is an elevated station house beneath the tracks. A pair of staircases from either side of Roosevelt Avenue between 103rd and 104th Streets go up to the station house, where there is a token booth in the center and a turnstile bank on either side.^[7] Both turnstile banks lead to a wooden waiting area/crossunder and have a single staircase going up to either platform.^[4][5]

References

1. "NEW RAPID TRANSIT COMMISSION PREPARING PLANS FOR EXTENSION OF CORONA LINE TO FLUSHING; Board of Estimate Has Authorized Extension of Line From Corona to New Storage Yards Near Flushing River--Queensboro Subway to Have Connection With Proposed Eighth Avenue Line Near Times Square". The New York Times. June 12, 1921. Retrieved 18 September 2015.
2. "Facts and Figures: Annual Subway Ridership". Metropolitan Transportation Authority. Retrieved 2016-04-19.
3. "First Trains to be Run on Flushing Tube Line Oct. 13: Shuttle Operation Ordered to 111th Street Station on New Extension". Newspapers.com. Brooklyn Daily Eagle. October 5, 1925. p. 8. Retrieved 20 September 2015.
4. "www.nycsubway.org: IRT Flushing Line". www.nycsubway.org. Retrieved 2016-02-18.
5. "7 Train". 2014-08-11. Archived from the original on August 11, 2014. Retrieved 2016-02-18.
6. Cox, Jeremiah. "103 Street-Corona Plaza (7) - The SubwayNut". www.subwaynut.com. Retrieved 2016-02-18.
7. "MTA Neighborhood Maps: Corona" (PDF). Metropolitan Transit Authority (New York). 2015. Retrieved 20 September 2015.

External links

• 103rd Street entrance from Google Maps Street View