23rd Street–Ely Avenue (IND Queens Boulevard Line)

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New York City Subway station 23rd Street–Ely Avenue

Station information
Line	IND Queens Boulevard Line
Services	E V⁽¹²³⁾
Transfers	7 <7>^(1a2a3c) at 45th Road–Court House Square (IRT Flushing Line)
	G at Long Island City–Court Square (IND Crosstown Line)
Platforms	2 side platforms
Tracks	2
Other
Borough	Queens
Opened	August 28, 1939^[1]
Next north	Queens Plaza E V⁽¹²³⁾
Next south	Lexington Avenue–53rd Street E V⁽¹²³⁾

23rd Street–Ely Avenue is a station on the IND Queens Boulevard Line of the New York City Subway. Located at the intersection of 23rd Street, Ely Avenue, and 44th Drive in Queens, it is served by the E train (all times) and by the V train (weekdays). This is the western-most (railroad south station on the Queens Boulevard Line.

Each end of the station has a crossover. The full-time south end leads to 21st Street and has the original IND signs "Manhattan" and "Jamaica" still inside fare control. The North end connects to the passageway to the G train, which was built by Citibank when their Court Square building was built. This passageway has a glass finish at the escalators near the building entrance and the only moving walkways (horizontal escalators) in the subway system.

An out-of-system transfer with a MetroCard is available to the 45th Road–Court House Square station (7). Construction of Citigroup’s second building in Long Island City is expected to be completed in 2007. The company plans to improve the connection between the G and 7 subway stations by constructing an escalator and elevator that will allow passengers to transfer between both services without having to exit the subway and then re-enter the 7 line elevated station.

There are two sets of artwork here. One was made in 1992 by Frank Olt and is called Temple Quad Reliefs. The other was made in 2001 by Elizabeth Murray and is called Streams. It is desribed as "whimsical boots stride over the city skyline paired with mosaic images of both sun and rainclouds which float along the the walls of the transfer mezzanine."