Cedar Avenue station

Cedar Avenue
Former Staten Island Railway station
General information
Location	Staten Island
Coordinates	40.596583°N 74.065639°W / 40.596583; -74.065639 (Cedar Avenue Station)
Line(s)	South Beach Branch
Platforms	2 side platforms
Tracks	2
History
Opened	1931; 94 years ago (1931)
Closed	March 31, 1953; 71 years ago (1953-03-31)
Former services
Preceding station Staten Island Railway Following station Arrochar toward Clifton South Beach Branch South Beach toward Wentworth Avenue

Cedar Avenue was a station on the demolished South Beach Branch of the Staten Island Railway. It had two tracks and two side platforms and was located at Cedar Avenue and Railroad Avenue. It opened in 1931, and closed in 1953.

History

In 1931, the station opened with the construction of wooden platforms at the Cedar Avenue grade crossing on the South Beach Branch.[1] The following year, a shelter was added on the westbound platform.[2]

This station was abandoned when the SIRT discontinued passenger service on the South Beach Branch to South Beach at midnight on March 31, 1953 because of city-operated bus competition.[3][4][5] The platforms continued to remain on this location into the 1960s.[6]

South of this station is the Robin Road Trestle, which is the only remaining intact trestle along the South Beach Line. In the early 2000s, developers purchased the property on either side of the trestle's abutments, but the developers, the New York City Department of Transportation, and the New York City Transit Authority all claimed ownership of it. Consequently, townhouses have built up against both sides of it.[7][8][9][10]

References

1. Eleventh Annual Report For The Calendar Year 1931. New York State Transit Commission. p. 75.
2. Twelfth Annual Report For The Calendar Year 1933. New York State Transit Commission. p. 75.
3. Pitanza, Marc (2015). Staten Island Rapid Transit Images of Rail. Arcadia Publishing. ISBN 978-1-4671-2338-9.
4. 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.
5. "The Old Order Passeth: Rails Surrender To Roads: Passenger Runs on Two Lines of SIRT Will End at Midnight". Staten Island Advance. March 31, 1953. Retrieved October 14, 2015.
6. "Gary Owen's SIRT Page". Gary Owen Land. March 31, 1953. Retrieved November 19, 2015.
7. "STATEN ISLAND RAILWAY". Forgotten New York. March 29, 2012. Retrieved October 8, 2015.
8. Arrochar and South Beach: In the Shadow of the 'Zano Archived July 7, 2012, at archive.today.
9. Advance, Staten Island (December 7, 2008). "Permission to dream". SILive.com. Retrieved October 8, 2015.
10. "Gary Owen SIRT Page Part Two". Gary Owen Land. April 20, 1937. Retrieved October 8, 2015.