Division B (IND) Structure Underground Borough Manhattan Locale Chelsea, Gramercy Park | Line IND Sixth Avenue Line Opened 15 December 1940 Tracks 2 | |
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Address West 23rd Street & Sixth Avenue
New York, NY 10011 Services F (all times)
M (weekdays until 11:00 p.m.) Transit connections NYCT Bus: M7, M23 SBS, M55
PATH: JSQ–33, HOB–33, JSQ–33 (via HOB) (at 23rd Street) Similar 75th Avenue, 47th–50th Streets–Rockefeller Center, 36th Street, Roosevelt Island, Avenue X | ||
23rd Street is a local station on the IND Sixth Avenue Line of the New York City Subway. Located at the intersection of 23rd Street and Sixth Avenue in Manhattan, it is served by the F train at all times, and by the M train on weekdays. This station and 14th Street are the only two local stations on the Sixth Avenue Line.
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Station layout
This station opened on December 15, 1940 as part of the opening of the IND Sixth Avenue Line from 47th–50th Streets – Rockefeller Center to West Fourth Street.
There are two tracks and two side platforms; no crossover, crossunder or mezzanine exist to allow a free transfer between directions. The PATH tracks, which were built forty years before the Sixth Avenue Line, are behind the trackway walls where there would typically be the express tracks. The Sixth Avenue PATH tracks are on top of the express tracks, which were constructed in the mid-1960s using the "deep-bore" tunneling method and both are not visible from the station. The tile band is lime green. The tile band on the track walls appears to be obscured by support beams directly underneath 23rd Street.
On the express tracks on the lower level, the deep-bore tunnel's round shape becomes square below this station and at 14th Street stations, where provisions for lower level platforms were built.
Under the 2015–2019 MTA Capital Plan, the station, along with thirty other New York City Subway stations, will undergo a complete overhaul and would be entirely closed for up to 6 months. Updates would include cellular service, Wi-Fi, charging stations, improved signage, and improved station lighting.
Exits
The northbound platform has exits on the east side of 23rd Street and Sixth Avenue, while the southbound platform has exits to the west side. Each side of the station has four street staircases on the corresponding side of Sixth Avenue, two to each corner. The station also features direct indoor entrances to the 23rd Street PATH station on both sides; the northbound platform has a direct entrance to the 33rd Street-bound PATH, while the southbound platform has a direct entrance to the New Jersey-bound PATH. The southern entrances on each side appear to be part of the original 1911 PATH entrances.