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| Address | Jefferson Avenue & North Railroad Avenue Staten Island, NY 10306 |
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| Borough | Staten Island | ||||||||||
| Locale | Midland Beach | ||||||||||
| Services | SIR Main Line | ||||||||||
| Structure | Embankment | ||||||||||
| Platforms | 2 side platforms | ||||||||||
| Tracks | 2 | ||||||||||
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| Opened | April 23, 1860[1] | ||||||||||
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Jefferson Avenue is a Staten Island Railway station between the neighborhoods of Grant City, Staten Island, New York and Dongan Hills, Staten Island, New York. It is located on an embankment at Jefferson Avenue and Railroad Avenue on the main line. This station has two side platforms. There is no station house and the only exit is at the northeast end, which leads to Jefferson Avenue. This is currently the only station on the SIR to be named for a street rather than for the neighborhood it serves, like most New York City Subway stations. From north to south, Jefferson Avenue station begins the descent from the embankment to the open cut.
Prior to 1965, the Jefferson Avenue crossing was at grade level. It only had a single warning bell for approaching trains. In the mid 1960s construction began on eliminating the crossings from Jefferson Avenue to New Dorp. The track was displaced onto South Railroad Avenue and the station as well as the crossing were temporarily relocated to Adams Avenue. Jefferson Avenue and the adjacent intersections were dropped below grade and the current station was built.