Grasmere station

 Grasmere
 
Staten Island Railway station
Platform
Station statistics
Address Clove Road & Giles Place
Staten Island, NY 10304
Borough Staten Island
Locale Grasmere
Coordinates 40°36′12″N 74°05′02″W / 40.60347°N 74.08378°W / 40.60347; -74.08378Coordinates: 40°36′12″N 74°05′02″W / 40.60347°N 74.08378°W / 40.60347; -74.08378
Services Local  (All times)
Transit connections New York City Bus: S53
Structure Open-cut
Platforms 1 island platform
Tracks 2
Other information
Opened c. 1886
Station code 505[1]
Station succession
Next north Clifton
Next south Old Town

Grasmere is a Staten Island Railway station in the neighborhood of Grasmere, Staten Island, New York. It is located at Clove Road on the Main Line.

History

The station opened in 1886 for a cost of $555.35.[2]

On May 21, 2012, the Grasmere station started to be rehabilitated. The construction included demolition and rebuilding of the station platform and station house. A temporary platform and entrance were built north of the main station. Construction was finished in April 2014.[3][4][5]

Station layout

G Street level Exit/Entrance
P
Platforms		 Southbound ← Tottenville toward Tottenville (Old Town)
Island platform, doors will open on the left for the first 3 cars only
Northbound → St. George toward St. George (Clifton) →
Temporary stair and platform, October 2012

The platform is located in an open cut and has glass block and concrete windscreens attached to the canopy supports.

The Grasmere crossover, consisting of two manual switches, was located just past the Fingerboard Road overpass north of the station, but has since been removed. North of this station, the line merges with the abandoned South Beach Branch. The branch was closed on March 31, 1953 due to poor ridership and the SIRT's financial issues.[6][7][8]

Exit

The Grasmere station's only exit is at the north end of the station, and leads to the southern side of Clove Road. This station has the original brick station house from the 1933 grade separation project, located over the Tottenville-bound track at the south end of the line. The building is open only during the morning rush hour.[9]

References

  1. ↑ "Station Developers' Information". Metropolitan Transportation Authority. Retrieved June 13, 2017.
  2. ↑ New York (State). Board of Railroad Commissioners (Volume 2 ed.). 1886. Retrieved December 6, 2015.
  3. ↑ Sedon, Michael (May 18, 2012). "Major repairs on the way for Staten Island Railway". SILive.com. Retrieved December 24, 2017.
  4. ↑ MTA Grasmere Station Getting Major Repairs Archived May 20, 2012, at the Wayback Machine. May 21, 2012
  5. ↑ Sedon, Michael (July 11, 2012). "Staten Island Railway construction at Grasmere means weekend detour". SILive.com. Retrieved December 24, 2017.
  6. ↑ Pitanza, Marc (2015). Staten Island Rapid Transit Images of Rail. Arcadia Publishing. ISBN 978-1-4671-2338-9.
  7. ↑ Leigh, Irvin; Matus, Paul (January 2002). "Staten Island Rapid Transit: The Essential History". thethirdrail.net. The Third Rail Online. Archived from the original on May 30, 2015. Retrieved June 27, 2015.
  8. ↑ Drury, George H. (1994). The Historical Guide to North American Railroads: Histories, Figures, and Features of more than 160 Railroads Abandoned or Merged since 1930. Waukesha, Wisconsin: Kalmbach Publishing. pp. 312–314. ISBN 0-89024-072-8.
  9. ↑ "Map of NYC Subway Entrances". NYC Open Data. City of New York. Retrieved July 10, 2018.
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