Borough Staten Island Structure At-grade | Services none (closed) Platforms 2 side platforms | |
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Address Saint Andrews Place & Bethel Avenue
Staten Island, NY 10307 Locale Tottenville, Charleston | ||
Nassau is an abandoned Staten Island Railway station located roughly between the neighborhoods of Tottenville (to the south) and Charleston (to the north), in Staten Island, New York. The station, along with the Atlantic station, was closed on January 21, 2017, replaced by the new Arthur Kill station.
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History
Nassau station opened sometime after 1921, over sixty years after the opening of the 1860 opening of the Staten Island Railway from Annadale to Tottenville. The station was named for the nearby Nassau Smelting & Refining Company, which extended the station to its current length in the 1970s. 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 Telephone System's Western Electric division, the factory recycled obsolete telephone equipment and manufactured copper wire and solder. It would later be called AT&T Nassau Metals. For more than 20 years, the site was a vacant brownfield, until the land was cleaned up in 2007 and became environmentally safe for future development.
In about 1971, the station platforms were extended to 300 feet, funded in part, by the Nassau Smelting Plant. The station extension was built on timber covered with asphalt. Nassau, along with the nearby Atlantic station (also built next to a factory), were not modernized in the 1990s along with the rest of the line, because of the proposed replacement station at Arthur Kill Road. Due to structural deterioration of the extension and lack of maintenance, on September 2, 2010 most of Nassau station towards the eastern end was closed off. Construction on the replacement station, now simply called Arthur Kill, began in October 2013, and was opened on January 21, 2017. With the opening of Arthur Kill, the Nassau station was closed and will be demolished.
Station layout
In the St. George-bound direction, the station 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 (300 foot) side platforms, but three-fourths of each platform towards the station's east (railroad north) end is closed and walled-off. This leaves only the pre-extension portions of the platforms, measuring 80 feet (24 m) long each. Much like the nearby Atlantic station, only the last car of a train used to serve the station. An overpass and exits are located at the west (railroad south) end. The staircase to St. Andrews Place on the east side has no canopy. The overpass is still accessible, but the stairways leading down to the platforms are walled off.
An abandoned siding sits next to the southbound (geographically northern) platform, which used to serve the Nassau Smelting & Refining Company.