Old Town station (Staten Island Railway)

Old Town 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
Station statistics
Address	Old Town Road & North Railroad Avenue Staten Island, NY 10304
Borough	Staten Island
Locale	Old Town
Coordinates	40.5964°N 74.0875°W / 40.5964; -74.0875
Services	Local  (All times)
Structure	Embankment
Platforms	2 side platforms
Tracks	2
Other information
Opened	1937[lower-alpha 1]
Station code	506[5]
Former/other names	Old Town Road
Station succession
Next north	Grasmere
Next south	Dongan Hills
Location Show map of New York City Subway Show map of New York City Show map of New York
Layout to Grasmere to Dongan Hills
Street map

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.

P 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
G	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.[6]

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. Retrieved December 24, 2017.
2. "Staten Island Rapid Transit Railway Map 1937". Flickr. Staten Island Rapid Transit Railway Company. Retrieved December 24, 2017.
3. "Staten Island Rapid Transit Railway Map 1937". Staten Island Rapid Transit Railway Company. Missing or empty |url= (help)
4. "Staten Island Rapid Transit Ticket 1939 No. B 260510". Flickr. Staten Island Rapid Transit Railway Company. Retrieved December 24, 2017.
5. "Station Developers' Information". Metropolitan Transportation Authority. Retrieved June 13, 2017.
6. "Map of NYC Subway Entrances". NYC Open Data. City of New York. Retrieved July 10, 2018.

External links

Media related to Old Town (Staten Island Railway station) at Wikimedia Commons

• Staten Island Railway station list
• Staten Island Railway general information
• Old Town Road entrance from Google Maps Street View
• Platforms from Google Maps Street View