Old Town station (Staten Island Railway)

The Old Town station is a Staten Island Railway station in the neighborhood of Old Town, Staten Island, New York.

Old Town
Staten Island Railway station (rapid transit)
Northbound platform
General information
LocationOld Town Road & North Railroad Avenue
Old Town, Staten Island
Coordinates40.5964°N 74.0875°W / 40.5964; -74.0875
Platforms2 side platforms
Tracks2
Construction
Structure typeEmbankment
Other information
Station code506
History
Opened1937[lower-alpha 1]
Previous namesOld Town Road
Services
Preceding station Staten Island Railway Following station
Grasmere
toward St. George
 Dongan Hills
toward Tottenville

History

The station opened toward the beginning of 1937,[1][2][4] likely during a grade crossing elimination project. The original name of the station was "Old Town Road"; the "Road" was dropped soon after the Metropolitan Transportation Authority assumed control of the Staten Island Railway from the Baltimore and Ohio Railroad in 1971 (the MTA concurrently shortened the name of the Huguenot Park station to simply "Huguenot").

Station layout
Southbound stair

The station is located on an embankment at Railroad Avenue on the main line. It has two side platforms, and metal orange canopies and walls. Just north of this station, a spur that had multiple purposes and served the press building of the Staten Island Advance newspaper is nowadays used as a storage spur for ballast cars.

Platform
level		 Side platform
Southbound ← toward Tottenville (Dongan Hills)
← rush hour express does not stop here
Northbound → toward St. George (Grasmere) →
→ AM rush express does not stop here →
Side platform
Ground Street level Exit/entrance, buses

Exits

The exit at the south end leads to Old Town Road. An additional staircase at the north end of the northbound platform leads to a roadway to Dawson Place and Oregon Road.[5]

References
  1. The opening date for this station can be approximated using contemporaneous maps and tikets. This ticket from 1935[1] shows that the Old Town station has not yet opened. A map of the Staten Island Rapid Transit Railway Company dated to January 11, 1937 shown here:[2] does not show the Old Town, Jefferson Avenue or Lake Avenue stations. However,[3] another map with the same date shows these stations with a few additional modifications. It seems that the second map was a revised version of the first one. Presumably it was printed to correct the old information, which did not show these stations. Finally, this ticket from 1938:[4] does show the station.
  1. "Staten Island Rapid Transit Ticket from July 31, 1935 No. A 9508". Flickr. Staten Island Rapid Transit Railway Company. 19 November 2015. Retrieved December 24, 2017.
  2. "Staten Island Rapid Transit Railway Map 1937". Flickr. Staten Island Rapid Transit Railway Company. 19 November 2015. Retrieved December 24, 2017.
  3. "Staten Island Rapid Transit Railway Map 1937". Staten Island Rapid Transit Railway Company. {{cite web}}: Missing or empty |url= (help)
  4. "Staten Island Rapid Transit Ticket 1939 No. B 260510". Flickr. Staten Island Rapid Transit Railway Company. 19 November 2015. Retrieved December 24, 2017.
  5. "Map of NYC Subway Entrances". NYC Open Data. City of New York. Retrieved July 10, 2018.

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