23rd Street station (PATH)

G	Street level	Exit/entrance
B1 Sixth Avenue and PATH platforms	West mezzanine	Fare control, MetroCard machines
	Side platform
	Northbound local	← toward 179th Street (34th Street–Herald Square) ← weekdays toward 71st Avenue (34th Street–Herald Square)
	Side platform
	Northbound	←      HOB–33 weekdays toward 33rd Street (Terminus) ←           JSQ–33 (via HOB weekends) toward 33rd Street (Terminus)
	Southbound	→      HOB–33 weekdays toward Hoboken (14th Street) → →           JSQ–33 (via HOB weekends) toward Journal Square (14th Street) →
	Side platform
	Southbound local	→ toward Coney Island (14th Street) → → weekdays toward Metropolitan Avenue (14th Street) →
	Side platform
	East mezzanine	Fare control, station agent, MetroCard machines
B2	Underpass	Connection between PATH platforms
B3 Lower level[3]	Northbound express	← do not stop here
	Southbound express	→ do not stop here →

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).[1]

This PATH station has 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 underneath the tracks of the IND Sixth Avenue Line.[4]

There is a connection to the IND at their platforms, served by the F, <F>, and ​M trains, which are located on either side of the PATH station. The express tracks, used by the B and ​D trains, are located below the PATH tracks on a lower level.[4] The express tracks were constructed in the mid-1960s using the "deep-bore" tunneling method and both are not visible from the station.[3] 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.[5] 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.[5]

Combined New York City Subway and PATH entrances at 23rd Street and Sixth Avenue

From left to right:

• 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

• Flatiron Building
• Madison Square Park
• New York Life Insurance Building

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• PATH - 23rd Street Station
• 23rd Street entrance from Google Maps Street View
• Platform from Google Maps Street View