23rd Street–Ely Avenue (IND Queens Boulevard Line)

Infobox NYCS
name = 23rd Street–Ely Avenue

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bg_color = #11117D
bg_color_2 = #FF6E1A
line = IND Queens Boulevard Line
service = Queens 53rd
transfer_service= Flushing
transfer_station=45th Road–Court House Square
transfer_line=IRT Flushing Line
transfer_service_note=MetroCard only
transfer_service_2 = Crosstown
transfer_station_2=Long Island City–Court Square
transfer_line_2=IND Crosstown Line
platforms = 2 side platforms
tracks = 2
borough = Queens
open_date = August 28, 1939 [cite web|url=http://www.nycsubway.org/articles/historyindependentsubway.html|title=The History of the Independent Subway|accessdate=2006-07-03|last=Feinman|first=Mark|year=2000]
north_station = Queens Plaza
north_station_acc = yes
north_line = IND Queens Boulevard Line
north_service = Queens 53rd
south_station = Lexington Avenue–53rd Street
south_station_acc = yes
south_line = IND Queens Boulevard Line
south_service = Queens 53rd

23rd Street–Ely Avenue is a station on the IND Queens Boulevard Line of the New York City Subway. Located at the intersection of 23rd Street, Ely Avenue, and 44th Drive in Queens, it is served by the NYCS service|E train (all times) and by the NYCS service|V train (weekdays). This is the western-most railroad south station on the Queens Boulevard Line.

Each end of the station has a crossover. The full-time south end leads to 21st Street and has the original IND signs "Manhattan" and "Jamaica" still inside fare control. The North end connects to the passageway to the NYCS service|G train, which was built by Citibank when their Court Square building was built. This passageway has a glass finish at the escalators near the building entrance and the only moving walkways (horizontal escalators) in the subway system.

An out-of-system transfer with a MetroCard is available to the 45th Road–Court House Square station (NYCS Flushing). Construction of Citigroup’s second building in Long Island City is expected to be completed in the near future. The company plans to improve the connection between the NYCS service|G and NYCS service|7 subway stations by constructing an escalator and elevator that will allow passengers to transfer between both services without having to exit the subway and then re-enter the NYCS service|7 line elevated station.

There are two sets of artwork here. One was made in 1992 by Frank Olt and is called "Temple Quad Reliefs". The other was made in 2001 by Elizabeth Murray and is called "Streams". It is desribed as "whimsical boots stride over the city skyline paired with mosaic images of both sun and rainclouds which float along the walls of the transfer mezzanine."

References

External links

*NYCS ref|http://www.nycsubway.org/perl/stations?219:4022|IND Queens Boulevard Line|23rd St./Ely Avenue
*Station Reporter — [http://www.stationreporter.net/ctsq.htm Court Square Complex]