Nassau (Staten Island Railway station)

Nassau
Staten Island Railway rapid transit station

Western stair with remains of factory siding visible through the railing
Station statistics
Address Saint Andrews Place & Bethel Avenue
Staten Island, NY 10307
Borough Staten Island
Locale Tottenville, Charleston
Services SIR Main Line
Structure At-grade
Platforms 2 side platforms
Tracks 2
Other information
Opened after 1921[1]
Station succession
Preceding station   Staten Island Railway   Following station
toward St. George
 Main Line
Main Line
under construction

Nassau is a Staten Island Railway station located roughly between the neighborhoods of Tottenville (on the south) and Charleston (on the north), in Staten Island, New York. In the St. George bound direction it is located at Bethel Avenue and Saint Andrews Place. In the Tottenville bound direction it is at the end of Nassau place. This station contains two four-car length side platforms with an overpass and exits at the south end. The staircase to St. Andrews Place on the east side has no canopy.

An abandoned siding sits next to the southbound platform, which used to serve the Nassau Smelting & Refining Company, for which the station was originally named. The factory opened in 1882 as the Tottenville Copper Works and changed its name in 1931 to the Nassau Smelting & Refining Company. As a subsidiary of Bell System's Western Electric division, the factory recycled obsolete telephone equipment and manufactured copper wire and solder. For more than 20 years the site was a vacant brownfield, until 2007, when the land was cleaned up and is now environmentally safe for future development.[2] West of the station is all vacant land.

The Arthur Kill Road station is planned to replace this station and the Atlantic station to the west.

Bus Connection

References

  1. ^ The line to Tottenville was open by 1860 according to 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. , however Nassau did not appear in a SIRT timetable from 1921 according to "Time-Table No. 8 October 16, 1921". http://gretschviking.net/SIRTTimeTable1921.bmp. Retrieved 2009-03-23.  A system map from 1949 did list the Nassau station according to Calcagno, Michael. "SIRT Track Map". http://nycsubway.org/lines/sirt-trackmap.html. Retrieved 2009-03-24. 
  2. ^ Nyback, Glenn (October 1, 2006). "Cleanup of former Nassau Smelting site to begin". Staten Island Advance. 

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