23rd Street station (IRT Broadway–Seventh Avenue Line)

Coordinates: 40°44′38″N 73°59′46″W / 40.744°N 73.996°W / 40.744; -73.996
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 23 Street
 
M23 SBS
StructureUnderground
Platforms2 side platforms
Tracks4
Other information
OpenedJuly 1, 1918; 105 years ago (1918-07-01)
Opposite-
direction
transfer		No
Traffic
20233,154,290[2] Increase 15%
Rank106 out of 423[2]
Services
Preceding station New York City Subway New York City Subway Following station
28th Street
1 all times ​2 late nights
toward Van Cortlandt Park–242nd Street
Local 		18th Street
1 all times ​2 late nights
toward South Ferry
"3" train does not stop here
Location
23rd Street station (IRT Broadway–Seventh Avenue Line) is located in New York City Subway
23rd Street station (IRT Broadway–Seventh Avenue Line)
23rd Street station (IRT Broadway–Seventh Avenue Line) is located in New York City
23rd Street station (IRT Broadway–Seventh Avenue Line)
23rd Street station (IRT Broadway–Seventh Avenue Line) is located in New York
23rd Street station (IRT Broadway–Seventh Avenue Line)
Track layout

Legend
to 28th Street
to 18th Street
Street map

Map

Station service legend
Symbol Description
Stops all times Stops all times
Stops late nights only Stops late nights only
Stops late nights and weekends Stops late nights and weekends

The 23rd Street station is a local station on the IRT Broadway–Seventh Avenue Line of the New York City Subway. Located at 23rd Street and Seventh Avenue in Chelsea, Manhattan, it is served by the 1 train at all times and by the 2 train during late nights. The station was built by the Interborough Rapid Transit Company (IRT) as part of the Dual Contracts with New York City, and opened on July 1, 1918. The station had its platforms extended in the 1960s, and was renovated in the 1990s.

History

Construction and opening

Mosaic name tablet
Number tablet on trim line

The Dual Contracts, which were signed on March 19, 1913, were contracts for the construction and/or rehabilitation and operation of rapid transit lines in the City of New York. The contracts were "dual" in that they were signed between the City and two separate private companies (the Interborough Rapid Transit Company and the Brooklyn Rapid Transit Company), all working together to make the construction of the Dual Contracts possible. The Dual Contracts promised the construction of several lines in Brooklyn. As part of Contract 4, the IRT agreed to build a branch of the original subway line south down Seventh Avenue, Varick Street, and West Broadway to serve the West Side of Manhattan.[4][5][6]

The construction of this line, in conjunction with the construction of the

Lower West Side, and to neighborhoods such as Chelsea and Greenwich Village.[8][9]

1915 Seventh Avenue subway collapse with car fallen in tunnel

On September 22, 1915, there was an explosion during construction of the 23rd Street subway station that caused the tunnel to collapse. Seven people were killed after a blast of dynamite in the subway tunnel destroyed the plank roadway over Seventh Avenue. As a result, a crowded trolley car, and a brewery truck fell into the excavation, accounting for most of the injuries.[10]

23rd Street station opened as part of an extension of the line from

Times Square to South Ferry.[11][13] The new "H" system was implemented on August 1, 1918, joining the two halves of the Broadway–Seventh Avenue Line and sending all West Side trains south from Times Square.[14] An immediate result of the switch was the need to transfer using the 42nd Street Shuttle in order to retrace the original layout. The completion of the "H" system doubled the capacity of the IRT system.[8]

Later years

The city government took over the IRT's operations on June 12, 1940.[15][16] On August 9, 1964, the New York City Transit Authority (NYCTA) announced the letting of a $7.6 million contract to lengthen platforms at stations on the Broadway—Seventh Avenue Line from Rector Street to 34th Street–Penn Station, including 23rd Street, and stations from Central Park North–110th Street to 145th Street on the Lenox Avenue Line to allow express trains to be lengthened from nine-car trains to ten-car trains, and to lengthen locals from eight-car trains to ten-car trains. With the completion of this project, the NYCTA project to lengthen IRT stations to accommodate ten-car trains would be complete.[17]

This station was renovated in the 1990s.[citation needed]

In April 2021, as part of a network accessibility trial, the Metropolitan Transportation Authority installed a braille map along the northbound platform wall.[18]: 76 

Station layout

Northbound street stair
Ground Street level Exit/entrance
Platform level Side platform
Northbound local ← "1" train toward Van Cortlandt Park–242nd Street (28th Street)
← "2" train toward Wakefield–241st Street late nights (28th Street)
Northbound express ← "2" train"3" train do not stop here
Southbound express → "2" train"3" train do not stop here →
Southbound local → "1" train toward South Ferry (18th Street) →
→ "2" train toward Flatbush Avenue–Brooklyn College late nights (18th Street) →
Side platform

This underground station has two

18th Street to the south.[22]

Both platforms have their original mosaic trim line and name tablets of a predominately brown and red color along with yellow and olive green. Except for at either end of the platforms where it gets narrower, both also have maroon I-beam columns running along them at regular intervals, alternating ones having the standard black station name plate with white lettering.

23rd St subway cross-section
8th Av 7th Av 6th Av 5th Av &
Broadway 		Park Av
A / C / E 1 / 2 / 3 FM↓ PATH FM↑ N / Q / R / W 6 / <6>
underpass underpass
This box:


Exits

Each platform has one same-level

fare control area in their center and there are no crossunders or crossovers. The northbound platform has the station's full-time turnstile bank and token booth and two staircases going to either eastern corners of 23rd Street and Seventh Avenue. The southbound platform has an unstaffed set of turnstiles and two staircases going up to either western corners of the same intersection.[23]

References

  1. ^ "Glossary". Second Avenue Subway Supplemental Draft Environmental Impact Statement (SDEIS) (PDF). Vol. 1. Metropolitan Transportation Authority. March 4, 2003. pp. 1–2. Archived from the original (PDF) on February 26, 2021. Retrieved January 1, 2021.
  2. ^ a b "Annual Subway Ridership (2018–2023)". Metropolitan Transportation Authority. 2023. Retrieved April 20, 2024.
  3. ^ "Annual Subway Ridership (2018–2023)". Metropolitan Transportation Authority. 2023. Retrieved April 20, 2024.
  4. ^ "Terms and Conditions of Dual System Contracts". nycsubway.org. Public Service Commission. March 19, 1913. Archived from the original on May 13, 2015. Retrieved February 16, 2015.
  5. ^ "The Dual System of Rapid Transit (1912)". nycsubway.org. Public Service Commission. September 1912. Archived from the original on January 26, 2021. Retrieved May 30, 2017.
  6. ^ "Most Recent Map of the Dual Subway System Which Shows How Brooklyn Borough Is Favored In New Transit Lines". The Brooklyn Daily Eagle. September 9, 1917. p. 37. Archived from the original on October 26, 2016. Retrieved August 23, 2016 – via Brooklyn Public Library; newspapers.com.
  7. hdl:2027/njp.32101061103816. Archived
    from the original on 2022-06-20. Retrieved 2020-09-03 – via HathiTrust.
  8. ^
    ISSN 0362-4331. Archived
    (PDF) from the original on December 12, 2019. Retrieved August 26, 2016.
  9. ISSN 0362-4331. Archived
    (PDF) from the original on July 13, 2021. Retrieved November 6, 2016.
  10. ISSN 0362-4331. Archived
    (PDF) from the original on September 1, 2021. Retrieved December 19, 2013.
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    (PDF) from the original on May 30, 2020. Retrieved November 6, 2016.
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  14. ISSN 0362-4331. Archived
    (PDF) from the original on 2021-02-21. Retrieved 2020-04-21.
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  17. ISSN 0362-4331. Archived
    from the original on January 10, 2021. Retrieved January 4, 2021.
  18. ^ "New York City Transit and Bus Committee Meeting May 2021". Metropolitan Transportation Authority. May 26, 2021. Retrieved May 26, 2021.
  19. ^ "1 Subway Timetable, Effective August 12, 2023". Metropolitan Transportation Authority. Retrieved August 26, 2023.
  20. ^ a b "2 Subway Timetable, Effective June 26, 2022". Metropolitan Transportation Authority. Retrieved August 26, 2023.
  21. ^ "3 Subway Timetable, Effective June 26, 2022". Metropolitan Transportation Authority. Retrieved August 26, 2023.
  22. ^ "Subway Map" (PDF). Metropolitan Transportation Authority. September 2021. Retrieved September 17, 2021.
  23. ^ "MTA Neighborhood Maps: Chelsea" (PDF). mta.info. Metropolitan Transportation Authority. 2015. Archived (PDF) from the original on July 24, 2015. Retrieved December 11, 2015.

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