Livingston (Staten Island Railway station)

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Livingston
Former Staten Island Railway rapid transit station
Bard Av SIRT jeh.JPG
Western part of station site
Station statistics
Borough Staten Island
Locale Livingston
Coordinates Lua error in package.lua at line 80: module 'strict' not found.
Line SIR North Shore Branch
Services none
Platforms 2 side platforms
Tracks 2
Other information
Opened February 23, 1886[1]
Closed March 31, 1953
Former/other names Livingston Street[2]
Station succession
Preceding station   MTA NYC logo.svg Staten Island Railway   Following station
toward Port Ivory
 North Shore Branch
closed
toward St. George

Livingston is a former station on the abandoned North Shore Branch of the Staten Island Railway.[3] Located north of Richmond Terrace at Bard Avenue in the Livingston section of Staten Island, it had two tracks and two side platforms.[3] The site is 1.8 miles (2.9 km) from the Saint George terminal.[4] Closed in 1953, the station was demolished, with few remnants of the site today.[5][6]

History

The remaining St. George-bound trackway and the restaurant (left) along the ROW.

The station opened on February 23, 1886 along with the other North Shore stations from St. George west to Elm Park.[7] It sits on land formerly occupied by the mansion of Livingston namesake Anson Livingston, also known as the "Bleak House," which was purchased by the North Shore Railroad in 1886. The town name "Livingston" was coined by SIRT officials.[1][8][9][10] The station was located on a wooden trestle on the shore of the Kill Van Kull on the edge of the island, built with two wooden high-level side platforms.[5][9][11][12][13] The former mansion was used as the stationhouse, with an overpass between the platforms on the west end of the station.[9] Industrial buildings were located adjacent to the station, including a power plant of the Richmond Light and Railroad Company, which operated a streetcar line along Richmond Terrace parallel to the SIRT until 1934.[11][14][15][16]

The station was abandoned on March 31, 1953, along with the South Beach Branch and the rest of the North Shore Branch.[7][11] Currently, the station site is occupied by an employee parking lot for the Con Edison facility located across the street.[6][8][17] Just east of the site is a restaurant, R.H. Tugs, which sits adjacent to the tracks.[18] The restaurant closed in August of 2011 after 25 years of operation, reopening as Blue Restaurant.[8][19][20] The northern of the line's two tracks has been taken up, and due to coastal erosion of the line's retaining wall, part of the trestle has slid into the Kill Van Kull along with some of the trackage east and west of here.[5][13] Livingston is one of the stations to be returned to operation under the proposals for reactivation of the North Shore branch for rapid transit, light rail, or bus rapid transit service. Under the proposal, the right-of-way would be moved from the coastline to the parking lot site.[5][6][12]

References

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