23rd Street (BMT Broadway Line)
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New York City Subway station |
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| Line | BMT Broadway Line |
| Services | N  (late nights and weekends)R  (all except late nights)W  (weekdays until 11:00 p.m.) |
| Platforms | 2 side platforms |
| Tracks | 4 |
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| Borough | Manhattan |
| Opened | January 5, 1918[1] |
| Next north | 28th Street: N R W |
| Next south | 14th Street–Union Square: N R W |
23rd Street is a station on the BMT Broadway Line of the New York City Subway. Located at the intersection of 23rd Street, Broadway, and Fifth Avenue in Manhattan it is served by the R train (all times except late nights), the N train (weekends and late nights), and the W train (weekdays). The Flatiron Building and Madison Square Park are nearby.
This station's 1970s overhaul included fixing its structure and the overall appearance by replacing the original wall tiles, old signs, and incandescent lighting to the 70's modern look wall tile band and tablet mosaics, signs and fluorescent lights. It also included fixing staircases and platform edges. In 2001, the station received a major state of repairs, including upgrading for ADA compliance, restoring the original late 1910s tiling, repairing the staircases, re-tiling for the walls, new tiling on the floors, upgrading the station's lights and the public address system, installing ADA yellow safety threads along the platform edge, new signs, and new trackbeds in both directions.
The station was renovated before in the 1970s and again in 2004. There is a closed crossunder at the south end of the station only for emergency exit and station facility.
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[edit] External links
- nycsubway.org — BMT Broadway Subway: 23rd Street
- Station Reporter — N Train
- Station Reporter — R Train
- Station Reporter — W Train
