23 Street

23 Street is a local subway station on the BMT Broadway Line. This station is served by the R and W trains.

This station opened on January 5, 1918. There are four tracks and two side platforms. The tile band has "23" mosaics at certain intervals. Name tablets say "23RD STREET". There is no mezzanine and each platform has two exit-only areas, one at each end of the station. There is a small mezzanine at the middle of the station and an exit-only at the southbound platform. There was a full renovation in 1970 where the MTA covered up the original BMT wall tiles with 1970s cinderblock tiling, however some original tiling was left intact at the fare controls. After renovations, there was a modern "23 Street" sign on a green cinderblock background. There was another full renovation later in 2001, where the MTA removed the cinderblock tiling and restored the original BMT mosaics.

MTA Arts for Transit
 * Memories of Twenty-Third Street  by Keith Godard