Grasmere (Staten Island Railway station)

Grasmere
Staten Island Railway rapid transit 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 SIR Main Line
Transit connections New York City Bus: S53
Structure Open-cut
Platforms 1 island platform
Tracks 2
Other information
Opened c. 1886
Station succession

Preceding station   Staten Island Railway   Following station
toward St. George
Main Line

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.[1]

On May 21, 2012, MTA began to rehabilitate the Grasmere station. 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.[2][3][4]

Station layout

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

This station has the original brick station house from the 1933 grade separation project over the Tottenville-bound track at the south end of the line. The building is open only during the morning rush hour. The platform is located in an open cut and has glass block and concrete windscreens attached to the canopy supports; the only exit is at the north end of the station. 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 South Beach was closed on March 31, 1953 due to poor ridership and better bus service in Staten Island.[5][6][7]

Bus connection

References

  1. ↑ New York (State). Board of Railroad Commissioners (Volume 2 ed.). 1886. Retrieved 6 December 2015.
  2. ↑ Staten Island Advance article May 18, 2012
  3. ↑ MTA Grasmere Station Getting Major Repairs May 21, 2012
  4. ↑ Construction at Grasmere Station SI Live, July 2012
  5. ↑ Pitanza, Marc (2015). Staten Island Rapid Transit Images of Rail. Arcadia Pubishing. ISBN 978-1-4671-2338-9.
  6. ↑ Leigh, Irvin; Matus, Paul (January 2002). "Staten Island Rapid Transit: The Essential History". thethirdrail.net. The Third Rail Online. Retrieved 27 June 2015.
  7. ↑ 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.
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