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 9:30 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 was overhaul in the late 1970s. MTA did fix the station's structure and the overhaul appearance. It replaces 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 fixed staircases and platform edges. In 2001, the station was receiving a major overhaul. It was received state of repairs as well as upgrading the station for ADA compliance and restoring the original late 1910s tiling. MTA did repair 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 — R Train
- Station Reporter — W Train
