Grasmere station

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.

Grasmere
Staten Island Railway station (rapid transit)
Platform
Station statistics
Address	Clove Road & Giles Place Staten Island, NY 10304
Borough	Staten Island
Locale	Grasmere
Coordinates	40.60347°N 74.08378°W
Services	Local  (All times)
Transit	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
Location
Track layout to Clifton to Old Town
Street map

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

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]

G	Street level	Exit/entrance, parking, buses
P Platform level	Southbound	← toward Great Kills or Tottenville (Old Town) ← rush hour express does not stop here
	Island platform
	Northbound	→ toward St. George (Clifton) → → AM rush express does not stop here →

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 had the original brick station house from the 1933 grade separation project, located over the Tottenville-bound track at the south end of the line, however it was demolished and replaced with a modern headhouse in the 2010's. 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.

External links

• Staten Island Railway station list
• Staten Island Railway general information
• Clove Road entrance from Google Maps Street View
• Platform from Google Maps Street View