23rd Street (BMT Broadway Line)

23rd Street

New York City Subway rapid transit station

Uptown platform

Station statistics

Address

intersection of 23rd Street, Fifth Avenue & Broadway
New York, NY 10010

Borough

Manhattan

Locale

Flatiron District, Madison Square

Coordinates

40°44′29″N 73°59′21″W / 40.741339°N 73.989272°WCoordinates: 40°44′29″N 73°59′21″W / 40.741339°N 73.989272°W

Division

B (BMT)

Line

BMT Broadway Line

Services

      N (weekends and late nights)
      Q (late nights only)
      R (all except late nights)
      W (weekdays only)

Transit connections

New York City Bus: M2, M3, M5, M23 SBS, X27, X28

MTA Bus: BM1, BM2, BM3, BM4, BM5

Structure

Underground

Platforms

2 side platforms

Tracks

Other information

Opened

January 5, 1918^[1]

Wireless service

^[2]

Traffic

Passengers (2015)

7,965,410^[3]

8.4%

Rank

50 out of 422

Station succession

Next north

28th Street: N Q R W

Next south

14th Street–Union Square: N Q R W

Station service legend
Symbol	Description
	Stops all times except late nights
	Stops all times
	Stops late nights only

Location
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23rd Street is a local 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 at all times except late nights, the W train on weekdays, the N train during weekends and late nights and the Q train during late nights.

Station layout

Track layout

Legend

to 28 St

to 14 St

G	Street Level	Exit / Entrance
P Platform level	Side platform, doors will open on the right
	Southbound local	← toward Coney Island–Stillwell Avenue via Sea Beach weekends and late nights ( via Brighton late nights) (14th Street–Union Square) ← toward Bay Ridge–95th Street (14th Street–Union Square) ← toward Whitehall Street–South Ferry weekdays (14th Street–Union Square)
	Southbound express	← do not stop here
	Northbound express	→ do not stop here →
	Northbound local	→ weekdays ( weekends and late nights) toward Astoria–Ditmars Boulevard (28th Street) → → toward 57th Street–Seventh Avenue late nights (28th Street) → → toward Forest Hills–71st Avenue (28th Street) →
	Side platform, doors will open on the right

Entrance to the station

This underground station, opened on January 5, 1918, has four tracks and two side platforms. The two center tracks are used by the N train weekdays and Q train all times except late nights. The platforms have their original trim line, which has "23" tablets on it at regular intervals and name tablets, which read "23RD STREET" in Times New Roman font.

Each platform has two same-level fare control areas. The primary ones are at the north end. The Queens-bound platform has a bank of regular and high exit-only turnstiles, the station's full-time token booth, and three street stairs. One goes up to the northeast corner Broadway and 23rd Street (outside Madison Square Park) and the other two to the southeast. The Brooklyn-bound platform has a bank of regular and high exit-only turnstile, a now defunct customer assistance booth, and two street stairs. One is connected to fare control via a passageway and goes up to the northeast corner of 23rd Street and Fifth Avenue outside the Flatiron Building while the other goes up to the southeast corner of Broadway and Fifth Avenue.

The station's other two fare control areas are at the south end of the station. The one on the Manhattan-bound platform is unstaffed, containing High Entry-Exit Turnstiles and one staircase going up to the northeast corner of 22nd Street and Broadway. The one on the Brooklyn-bound platform is exit-only and has one staircase to the northwest corner of 22nd Street and Broadway. There is a crossunder here that is only used for emergencies and station facilities.

Station identification tablet

Detail of top border mosaic

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 2002 artwork here is called Memories of Twenty-Third Street by Keith Godard. It consists of mosaics on the platform walls containing hats that famous people of the Flatiron District wore, including Oscar Wilde, Sarah Bernhardt, and W. E. B. Du Bois.

Subway pushing

On January 3, 1999, a schizophrenic man, Andrew Goldstein, pushed 32-year-old journalist and photographer Kendra Webdale onto the tracks from the Brooklyn-bound platform of this station. Webdale was then struck and killed by an oncoming N train. After two mistrials due to his mental incapacity, Goldstein pleaded guilty of manslaughter in October 2006 and sentenced to 23 years in prison. The incident led to the passing of Kendra's Law, which allows judges to order people suffering from certain psychological disorders to undergo regular treatment.^[4]

References

↑ New York Times, Open New Subway to Times Square, January 6, 1918
↑ "NYC Subway Wireless – Active Stations". Transit Wireless Wifi. Retrieved 2016-05-18.
↑ "Facts and Figures: Annual Subway Ridership". Metropolitan Transportation Authority. Retrieved 2016-04-19.
↑ Schapiro, Rich (2012-12-05). "Horrifying subway homicide causes parents to relive daughter's death". NY Daily News. Retrieved 2015-10-27.

External links

Wikimedia Commons has media related to 23rd Street (BMT Broadway Line).

nycsubway.org – BMT Broadway Subway: 23rd Street
Station Reporter — N Train
Station Reporter — R Train
MTA's Arts For Transit — 23rd Street (BMT Broadway Line)
Fifth Avenue and 23rd Street entrance from Google Maps Street View
Broadway and 23rd Street entrance from Google Maps Street View
Broadway and 22nd Street entrance from Google Maps Street View
Platforms from Google Maps Street View

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