23rd Street is a station on the PATH system. Located at the intersection of 23rd Street and

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(Avenue of the Americas) in the

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neighborhood of

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, it is served by the

Hoboken–33rd Street Hoboken–33rd Street is a rapid transit service operated by the Port Authority Trans-Hudson (PATH). It is colored blue on the PATH service map and trains on this service display blue marker lights. This service operates from the Hoboken Terminal ...

and

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lines on weekdays, and by the

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line on weekends.

Station layout

The station opened on June 15, 1908. Before the line was extended to 23rd Street, the northern terminus of the Hudson and Manhattan Railroad was a station located at 19th Street (now closed). This PATH station has

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s, but passengers must descend one level, walk through an underpass, and go up another stairwell, leading to the

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mezzanine. The PATH fare control is located in the underpass, which is underneath the tracks of the

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. There is a connection to the IND at their platforms, served by the , which are located on either side of the PATH station. The express tracks, used by the , are located below the PATH tracks on a lower level. The express tracks were constructed in the mid-1960s using the "deep-bore" tunneling method and both are not visible from the station. 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.

Exits

The northbound platform can be accessed from the exits on the east side of 23rd Street and Sixth Avenue, while the southbound platform can be accessed from the exits on the west side. There are two exits to each corner of that intersection, which serve both the subway and PATH platforms in each direction. The PATH station has direct entrances only from the IND station on either side, which are accessed only by going below the subway platform in the respective direction and then ascending onto the PATH platform. The 33rd Street-bound PATH is accessed from the northbound subway platform, while the New Jersey-bound PATH is accessed from the southbound subway platform. The southern entrances on each side appear to be part of the original 1911 PATH entrances. The station is near the Flatiron Building,

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, and New York Life Insurance Building.

References

External links

PATH - 23rd Street Station

23rd Street entrance from Google Maps Street View

Platform from Google Maps Street View
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