Cedar Avenue station

{{Infobox station

| type = Former Staten Island Railway station

| name = Cedar Avenue

| image =

| image_caption =

| line = South Beach Branch

| tracks = 2

| platforms = 2 side platforms

| structure =

| address =Staten Island

| coordinates ={{coord|40.596583|-74.065639|display=inline,title|type:railwaystation_region:US-NY|name=Cedar Avenue Station}}

| opened = {{start date and age|1931}}

| closed = {{start date and age|1953|Mar|31}}

| other_services_header=Former services

| other_services={{Adjacent stations|system=Staten Island Railway former|line=South Beach|left=Arrochar|right=South Beach}}

}}

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.{{Cite book|url=https://archive.org/details/annualreport1119newy/|title=Eleventh Annual Report For The Calendar Year 1931|publisher=New York State Transit Commission|pages=75}} The following year, a shelter was added on the westbound platform.{{Cite book|url=https://archive.org/details/annualreport1219newy/page/n73/mode/2up|title=Twelfth Annual Report For The Calendar Year 1933|publisher=New York State Transit Commission|pages=75}}

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.{{cite book |last=Pitanza |first=Marc |title=Staten Island Rapid Transit Images of Rail |publisher=Arcadia Publishing |year=2015 |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=eOSsCQAAQBAJ&q=staten+island+rapid+transit&pg=PA7 |isbn=978-1-4671-2338-9}}{{cite book |last=Drury |first=George H. |title=The Historical Guide to North American Railroads: Histories, Figures, and Features of more than 160 Railroads Abandoned or Merged since 1930 |publisher=Kalmbach Publishing |year=1994 |location=Waukesha, Wisconsin |pages=312–314 |isbn=0-89024-072-8}}{{cite news|title=The Old Order Passeth: Rails Surrender To Roads: Passenger Runs on Two Lines of SIRT Will End at Midnight|url=http://gretschviking.net/GOSIRTPage1_files/image009.jpg|access-date=October 14, 2015|publisher=Staten Island Advance|date=March 31, 1953}} The platforms continued to remain on this location into the 1960s.{{cite web | title=Gary Owen's SIRT Page | website=Gary Owen Land | date=March 31, 1953 | url=http://www.gretschviking.net/GOSIRTPage1.htm | access-date=November 19, 2015}}

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.{{cite web | title=STATEN ISLAND RAILWAY | website=Forgotten New York | date=March 29, 2012 | url=http://forgotten-ny.com/1999/07/staten-island-railway/ | access-date=October 8, 2015}}[http://classic.forgotten-ny.com/NEIGHBORHOODS/arrochar/arrochar.html Arrochar and South Beach: In the Shadow of the 'Zano] {{webarchive|url=https://archive.today/20120707105630/http://classic.forgotten-ny.com/NEIGHBORHOODS/arrochar/arrochar.html |date=July 7, 2012 }}.{{cite web | last=Advance | first=Staten Island | title=Permission to dream | website=SILive.com | date=December 7, 2008 | url=http://blog.silive.com/sinotebook/2008/11/permission_to_dream.html | access-date=October 8, 2015}}{{cite web | title=Gary Owen SIRT Page Part Two | website=Gary Owen Land | date=April 20, 1937 | url=http://www.gretschviking.net/GOSIRTPagePartTwo.htm | access-date=October 8, 2015}}

References

Category:South Beach Branch stations

Category:1931 establishments in New York City

Category:Railway stations in the United States opened in 1931

Category:1953 disestablishments in New York (state)

Category:Railway stations in the United States closed in 1953