Ford Wadsworth Station and Tompkins Ave Overpass
Description
The Fort Wadsworth railway station was rebuilt as a concrete structure during the mid-1930s as part of a massive grade separation project along what was then the South Beach Branch of the Staten Island Railway. The station was located between Fingerboard Road and the intersection of Tompkins Ave. and Lyman Ave. Long since abandoned (as the line was discontinued in 1953), the structure has since been demolished.
The Public Works Administration (PWA) provided a $1.46 million grant for the $6 million grade crossing elimination project, which included work elsewhere in Staten Island and even in Manhattan. PWA Docket No. NY 4926.
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Newly completed Fort Wadsworth railway station
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Fort Wadsworth railway station
Source notes
National Archives: Record Group 135: Public Works Administration; Projects Control Division; Entry 52: Indices to Non-Federal Projects; Report No. 5: Status of All Completed Non-Federal Allotted Projects, page 22.
Gary Owen’s S.I.R.T. South Beach Line Page: https://www.gretschviking.net/GOSIRTPage1.htm (accessed Mar. 2018)
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fort_Wadsworth_(Staten_Island_Railway_station)
Project originally submitted by Evan Kalish on March 7, 2018.
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