23rd Street (IND Eighth Avenue Line)

For the station in Queens also served by the E train, see Court Square – 23rd Street (IND Queens Boulevard Line).

23rd Street

New York City Subway rapid transit station

Street staircase to the downtown platform

Station statistics

Address

West 23rd Street & Eighth Avenue
New York, NY 10011

Borough

Manhattan

Locale

Chelsea

Coordinates

40°44′43″N 73°59′55″W / 40.745274°N 73.998499°WCoordinates: 40°44′43″N 73°59′55″W / 40.745274°N 73.998499°W

Division

B (IND)

Line

IND Eighth Avenue Line

Services

      A (late nights)
      C (all except late nights)
      E (all times)

Transit connections

NYCT Bus: M20, M23 SBS

Structure

Underground

Platforms

2 side platforms

Tracks

Other information

Opened

September 10, 1932^[1]

Wireless service

^[2]

Traffic

Passengers (2015)

7,844,508^[3]

Rank

52 out of 422

Station succession

Next north

34th Street – Penn Station: A C E

Next south

14th Street: A C E

Station service legend
Symbol	Description
	Stops all times except late nights
	Stops all times
	Stops late nights only

Location
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23rd Street is a local station on the IND Eighth Avenue Line of the New York City Subway. Located at the intersection of 23rd Street and Eighth Avenue in Chelsea, Manhattan, it is served by the C and E trains, the former of which is replaced by the A train during late nights.

Station layout

Track layout

Legend

to 34 St

to 14 St

G	Street Level	Exit/Entrance
B1 Platform level	Side platform, doors will open on the right
	Northbound local	← toward 168th Street ( toward 207th Street late nights) (34th Street – Penn Station) ← toward Jamaica Center (34th Street – Penn Station)
	Northbound express	← does not stop here
	Southbound express	→ does not stop here →
	Southbound local	→ toward Euclid Avenue ( toward Far Rockaway late nights) (14th Street) → → toward World Trade Center (14th Street) →
	Side platform, doors will open on the right
B2	-	Crossunder between platforms

Southbound platform

This underground station opened on September 10, 1932, as part of the initial segment of the Independent Subway System, at the time comprising what is now the IND Eighth Avenue Line from Chambers Street to 207th Street.^[1]^[4] There are four tracks and two side platforms. The two center tracks are used by the A express train during daytime hours. Just north of this station, a storage track begins between the two express tracks. This track runs north and stub-ends at the south end of the center platform at 34th Street – Penn Station.

Both platform walls have "23RD ST." name tablets in a yellow background and "23" in white numbering on a black border. There are also directional signs in the same format. The platform columns are yellow with every other one having the standard black and white station signs.

All fare controls are on platform level. The full-time ones are at the south end of the station. Each entrance/exit has a turnstile bank, token booth, and two staircases to the street. The northbound side leads to either eastern corners of 23rd Street and Eighth Avenue and the southbound side leads to either western corners. A crossunder within fare control at the 23rd Street end connects both platforms.

Both platforms have another fare control area at their north ends that require going up a short flight of stairs to reach. Though open at all times, they are unstaffed, containing no token booth and just HEET turnstiles. Each entrance here has two street stairs, the northbound side to either eastern corners of 25th Street and Eighth Avenue and the southbound side to either western corners. The crossunder here is closed.

Each platform also has an exit-only at the center. Two High Entry-Exit Turnstiles lead to a small mezzanine, where a single staircase goes up to the streets. The northbound side leads to the southeast corner of 24th Street and 8th Avenue and the southbound side to the northwest corner.

The station is planned to be renovated as part of the 2010–2014 MTA Capital Program. An MTA study conducted in 2014 found that 40% of station components were out of date.^[5]

References

1 2 New York Times, List of the 28 Stations on the New Eighth Ave Line, September 10, 1932, page 6
↑ "NYC Subway Wireless – Active Stations". Transit Wireless Wifi. Retrieved 2016-05-18.
↑ "Facts and Figures: Annual Subway Ridership". New York City Metropolitan Transportation Authority. Retrieved 2016-04-18.
↑ "Gay midnight crowd rides first trains in new subway". New York Times. September 10, 1932. p. 1.
↑ "Review of the A and C Lines" (PDF). Metropolitan Transportation Authority. December 11, 2015. Retrieved 19 January 2016.

External links

Wikimedia Commons has media related to 23rd Street (IND Eighth Avenue Line).

nycsubway.org – IND 8th Avenue: 23rd Street
Station Reporter — C Train
Station Reporter — E Train
23rd Street Entrance from Google Maps Street View
24th Street Exit Only Stairs from Google Maps Street View
25th Street Entrance from Google Maps Street View
Platforms from Google Maps Street View

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