23rd Street (IND Sixth Avenue Line)

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23rd Street
NYC Subway F service NYC Subway V service

New York City Subway station

Station information
Line IND Sixth Avenue Line
Services F all times (all times)
V weekdays until midnight (weekdays until midnight)
Platforms 2 side platforms
Tracks 2
Passengers (2006) 7.179 million 3%
Other
Borough Manhattan
Opened December 15, 1940
Connection PATH at 23rd Street
Next north 34th Street-Herald Square: F all times V weekdays until midnight
Next south 14th Street: F all times V weekdays until midnight

23d Street is a 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 the V train on weekdays. This station and 14th Street are the only two local stations on the Sixth Avenue Line.

There are two side platforms. There is no crossover or crossunder, and no mezzanine. The PATH tracks, which were built forty years before the Sixth Avenue Line, are behind the trackway walls where the express tracks would typically be. The Sixth Avenue express tracks are underneath the PATH tracks and were constructed using the "deep-bore" tunneling method in the mid 1960s. Neither the PATH tracks nor the lower level express tracks are visible from the subway station.

Each side of the station has four street staircases and a direct indoor entrance to the 23rd Street PATH station. Two of the four entrances on each side appear to be part of the original 1911 PATH entrances. The tile band is lime green. The tile band on the track walls appears to be obscured by support beams directly underneath 23rd Street.

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