23rd Street station (PATH)
# 23rd Street station (PATH)

23rd Street station is a station on the PATH system. Located at the intersection of 23rd Street and Sixth Avenue (Avenue of the Americas) in the Chelsea neighborhood of Manhattan, New York City, it is served by the Hoboken–33rd Street and Journal Square–33rd Street lines on weekdays, and by the Journal Square–33rd Street (via Hoboken) line on weekends.

## History

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).

## Station layout

This PATH station has two side platforms, but passengers must descend one level, walk through an underpass, and go up another stairwell, leading to the New York City Subway mezzanine. The PATH fare control is located in the underpass, which is located between the local and express tracks of the IND Sixth Avenue Line.

There is a connection to the Sixth Avenue Line at their platforms, served by the F, <F>, and ​M trains, which surround both sides of the PATH station. The express tracks, used by the B and ​D trains, 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.

| G | Street level | Exit/entrance |
| - | - | - |
| B1 Sixth Avenue and PATH platforms | West mezzanine | Fare control, MetroCard machines |
| Side platform ||
| B1 Sixth Avenue and PATH platforms | Northbound local | ← toward Jamaica–179th Street (34th Street–Herald Square) ← weekdays toward Forest Hills–71st Avenue (34th Street–Herald Square) |
| Side platform ||
| B1 Sixth Avenue and PATH platforms | Northbound | ← HOB–33 weekdays toward 33rd Street (Terminus) ←  JSQ–33 (via HOB weekends) toward 33rd Street (Terminus) |
| B1 Sixth Avenue and PATH platforms | Southbound | → HOB–33 weekdays toward Hoboken (14th Street) → →  JSQ–33 (via HOB weekends) toward Journal Square (14th Street) → |
| Side platform ||
| B1 Sixth Avenue and PATH platforms | Southbound local | → toward Coney Island–Stillwell Avenue (14th Street) → → weekdays toward Middle Village–Metropolitan Avenue (14th Street) → |
| Side platform ||
| B1 Sixth Avenue and PATH platforms | East mezzanine | Fare control, station agent, MetroCard machines |
| B2 | Underpass | Connection between PATH platforms |
| B3 Lower level | Northbound express | ← do not stop here |
| B3 Lower level | Southbound express | → do not stop here → |

23rd St subway cross-section :

| 8th Av | 7th Av | 6th Av | 6th Av | 6th Av | 5th Av & Broadway | 5th Av & Broadway | Park Av |
| - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - |
| A / C / E | 1 / 2 / 3 | FM↓ | PATH | FM↑ | N / Q / R / W | N / Q / R / W | 6 / <6> |
| underpass | | underpass | underpass | underpass | | |

### 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.

* Southeast corner entrance, seen in 2017
* Northeast corner entrance, seen in 2017
* Northeast corner entrance, seen in 2018 after New York City Subway station's renovation

The station is near the Flatiron Building, Madison Square Park, Metropolitan Life Insurance Company Tower, and New York Life Insurance Building.

