23rd Street (IRT Broadway–Seventh Avenue Line)
23rd Street  | |||||||||
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| New York City Subway rapid transit station | |||||||||
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Downtown platform | |||||||||
| Station statistics | |||||||||
| Address |
West 23rd Street & Seventh Avenue New York, NY 10011 | ||||||||
| Borough | Manhattan | ||||||||
| Locale | Chelsea | ||||||||
| Coordinates | 40°44′38″N 73°59′46″W / 40.744°N 73.996°WCoordinates: 40°44′38″N 73°59′46″W / 40.744°N 73.996°W | ||||||||
| Division | A (IRT) | ||||||||
| Line | IRT Broadway–Seventh Avenue Line | ||||||||
| Services |
1  (all times) 2  (late nights) | ||||||||
| Transit connections |
 NYCT Bus: M7, M20, M23 SBS | ||||||||
| Structure | Underground | ||||||||
| Platforms | 2 side platforms | ||||||||
| Tracks | 4 | ||||||||
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| Opened | July 1, 1918 | ||||||||
| Wireless service |
 [1] | ||||||||
| Traffic | |||||||||
| Passengers (2015) |
4,884,678[2]  0% | ||||||||
| Rank | 97 out of 422 | ||||||||
| Station succession | |||||||||
| Next north |
28th Street: 1 2 | ||||||||
| Next south |
18th Street: 1 2 | ||||||||
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23rd Street is a local station on the IRT Broadway–Seventh Avenue Line of the New York City Subway. Located at 23rd Street and Seventh Avenue in Chelsea, Manhattan, it is served by the 1 train at all times, and by the 2 train during late night hours.
Station layout
| G | Street Level | Exit/Entrance |
| P Platform level |
Side platform, doors will open on the right | |
| Northbound local | ← toward Van Cortlandt Park – 242nd Street ( toward 241st Street late nights) (28th Street) | |
| Northbound express | ←  do not stop here | |
| Southbound express | → do not stop here → | |
| Southbound local | → toward South Ferry ( toward Brooklyn College late nights) (18th Street) → | |
| Side platform, doors will open on the right | ||
This underground station, which opened on July 1, 1918 and renovated in the 1990s, has two side platforms and four tracks. The two express tracks are used by the 2 and 3 trains during daytime hours.
Both platforms have their original mosaic trim line and name tablets of a predominately brown and red color. They also have brown-red i-beam columns at regular intervals with alternating ones having the standard black and white number plate except at either end where they get narrower.
Each platform has one same-level fare control area in their center and there are no crossunders or crossovers. The northbound platform has the station's full-time turnstile bank and token booth and two staircases going to either eastern corners of 23rd Street and Seventh Avenue. The southbound platform has an unstaffed set of turnstiles and two staircases going up to either western corners of the same intersection.
In popular culture
In the 1998 film Godzilla, this station was destroyed by Zilla and used as the entrance to the nesting ground inside Madison Square Garden.
References
- ↑ "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 2016-04-19.
External links
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Wikimedia Commons has media related to 23rd Street (IRT Broadway – Seventh Avenue Line). |
- nycsubway.org – IRT West Side Line: 23rd Street
- Station Reporter – 1 Train
- 23rd Street entrance from Google Street View
- Platforms from Google Maps Street View