23rd Street (IND Sixth Avenue Line)
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23rd Street
 
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| New York City Subway rapid transit station | |||||||||
A Holiday Train at the station
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| Address | West 23rd Street & Sixth Avenue New York, NY 10011 |
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| Borough | Manhattan | ||||||||
| Locale | Chelsea, Gramercy | ||||||||
| Coordinates | 40°44′35″N 73°59′34″W / 40.742933°N 73.992877°WCoordinates: 40°44′35″N 73°59′34″W / 40.742933°N 73.992877°W | ||||||||
| Division | B (IND) | ||||||||
| Line | IND Sixth Avenue Line | ||||||||
| Services |
F  (all times)M  (weekdays until 11:00 p.m.) |
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| Transit connections |
 NYCT Bus: M7, M23 SBS, M55 PATH: JSQ–33, HOB–33, JSQ–33 (via HOB) (at 23rd Street) |
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| Structure | Underground | ||||||||
| Platforms | 2 side platforms | ||||||||
| Tracks | 2 | ||||||||
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| Opened | December 15, 1940 | ||||||||
| Wireless service |  |
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| Passengers (2015) | 8,942,154  3% |
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| Rank | 38 out of 425 | ||||||||
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| Next north |
34th Street–Herald Square: F M
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| Next south |
14th Street: F M
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23rd Street is a local 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 by the M train on weekdays. This station and 14th Street are the only two local stations on the Sixth Avenue Line.
This station opened on December 15, 1940 as part of the opening of the IND Sixth Avenue Line from 47th–50th Streets – Rockefeller Center to West Fourth Street.
There are two tracks and two side platforms; no crossover, crossunder or mezzanine exist to allow a free transfer between directions. The PATH tracks, which were built forty years before the Sixth Avenue Line, are behind the trackway walls where there would typically be the express tracks. The Sixth Avenue PATH tracks are on top of the express tracks, which were constructed in the mid-1960s using the "deep-bore" tunneling method and both are not visible from the station. The tile band is lime green. The tile band on the track walls appears to be obscured by support beams directly underneath 23rd Street.
On the express tracks on the lower level, the deep-bore tunnel's round shape becomes square below this station and at 14th Street stations, where provisions for lower level platforms were built.
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