Atlantic (Staten Island Railway station)

Atlantic is a Staten Island Railway station in the neighborhood of Tottenville, Staten Island, New York. Located roughly at Fisher Avenue and Arthur Kill Road on the main line, it is at grade level with side platforms that can hold only one car. Unlike most short platforms where the first car goes to the train platform, at Atlantic, the last car only goes to the platform. Access to the northbound platform is via the short dead-end Tracy Avenue off of Arthur Kill Road between Fisher and Wood Avenues, while the southbound platform is reached from an entrance on Ellis Street. An overpass links both platforms. One can see the original, pre-1990s SIRT station components on this line--steel corrugated walls, overpasses and original 4-foot (1.2 m)-high station pipe railings with faded signs. The station gets its name from the former Atlantic Terra Cotta factory, which was located near the station.

This and the Nassau station are expected to be replaced by a new ADA-compliant stop, to be called Arthur Kill Road, which lies between the two stations. The unrenovated Atlantic and Nassau stations are the only visual remains of a time when the SIRT built new platforms in the 1960s during a multi-phase grade elimination project farther north but without adding new canopies or shelters at these stops.

Bus connections

• S74 and S84

See also

• A. Hall and Sons Terra Cotta of Perth Amboy was reorganized as Atlantic Terra Cotta.

References

1. ^ Irvin Leigh and Paul Matus (December 23, 2001). "SIRT The Essential History". p. 5. http://www.thethirdrail.net/0201/sirt5.html. Retrieved 2009-03-03. 

External links

• Staten Island Railway station list
• Staten Island Railway general information
• Ellis Street entrance from Google Maps Street View