Clifton (Staten Island Railway station)

Clifton Staten Island Railway rapid transit station
Sign at Clifton SIR Station
Station statistics
Address	Bay Street & Townsend Avenue Staten Island, NY 10304
Borough	Staten Island
Locale	Clifton
Coordinates	40°37′17″N 74°04′17″W / 40.6215°N 74.0715°W / 40.6215; -74.0715 (Clifton Station)Coordinates: 40°37′17″N 74°04′17″W / 40.6215°N 74.0715°W / 40.6215; -74.0715 (Clifton Station)
Services	SIR Main Line
Structure	Embankment / Elevated
Platforms	2 side platforms
Tracks	2
Other information
Opened	April 23, 1860[1]
Former/other names	Vanderbilt's Landing
Station succession
Preceding station   Staten Island Railway   Following station Stapleton toward St. George Main Line Grasmere toward Great Kills or Tottenville Terminus South Beach Branch closed Bachmann toward Wentworth Avenue

Northbound entrance, Bay Street

Clifton is a Staten Island Railway station in the neighborhood of Clifton, Staten Island, New York. It is located at Norwood Avenue and Bay Street on the main line. It is located on an embankment with side platforms and beige canopies. The north end has exits on both platforms that lead to Bay Street. The southbound platform has winding stairs to Townsend Avenue while the northbound platform has stairs under the right-of-way to Midwood Avenue. The northbound platform also has a second staircase on Bay and Edgewater Streets, which is not present on the southbound side.

On Bay Street (sidewalk level) and facing the platform above, are remains of the original steps up to the old station platform, which became inaccessible when the platforms were extended in the 1990s. On the southbound side there is a station house on the outside, but only a shelter on the platform. Some of the boarded up windows and layout of the brick shelter suggest that it was originally a station house.

The SIR Clifton Yard is next to the northbound track, with yard leads and signals north of Clifton station. South of the station are the remains of the South Beach Branch turnout and a dismantled bridge.^[2] To the south, a spur on a pair of I-beams on concrete pillars is the location of an old coal, concrete, and lumber business. At Clifton the SIR main line turns southwest to Tottenville, and it no longer runs along the harbor front.

Clifton Yard

Bus Connection

• S51 and S81

References

1. ^ Irvin Leigh and Paul Matus (December 23, 2001). "SIRT The Essential History". p. 4. http://www.thethirdrail.net/0201/sirt4.html. Retrieved 2009-03-03. 
2. ^ "Gary Owen’s SIRT Page". http://gretschviking.net/GOSIRTPage1.htm. Retrieved 2009-03-01. 

External links

• Staten Island Railway station list
• Staten Island Railway general information
• Bay Street and Townsend Avenue entrance from Google Maps Street View
• Bay Street and Greenfield Avenue entrance from Google Maps Street View