23rd Street (BMT Broadway Line)

Infobox NYCS
name = 23rd Street

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font_color = black
font_color_2 = black
bg_color = #FFC800
line = BMT Broadway Line
service = Broadway local
platforms = 2 side platforms
tracks = 4
borough = Manhattan
open_date = January 5, 1918New York Times, [http://www.nycsubway.org/articles/nytimes-1918-broadway.html Open New Subway to Times Square] , January 6, 1918]
north_station = 28th Street
north_line = BMT Broadway Line
north_service = Broadway local
south_station = 14th Street–Union Square
south_station_acc = yes
south_line = BMT Broadway Line
south_service = Broadway local

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 NYCS service|R train (all times except late nights), the NYCS service|N train (weekends and late nights), and the NYCS service|W train (weekdays). The Flatiron Building and Madison Square Park are nearby.

This station's 1970s overhaul included fixing its structure and the overall appearance by replacing 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 included fixing staircases and platform edges. In 2001, the station received a major state of repairs, including upgrading for ADA compliance, restoring the original late 1910s tiling, repairing 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.

References

External links

*NYCS ref|http://www.nycsubway.org/perl/stations?202:1792|BMT Broadway Subway|23rd Street
*Station Reporter — [http://www.stationreporter.net/Ntrain.htm N Train]
*Station Reporter — [http://www.stationreporter.net/rtrain.htm R Train]
*Station Reporter — [http://www.stationreporter.net/wtrain.htm W Train]