Cedar Avenue Railway Station (demolished) Reconstruction - Staten Island NY

City:: Staten Island, NY
Site Type:: Infrastructure and Utilities, Mass Transportation
New Deal Agencies:: Public Works Administration (PWA), Public Works Funding
Completed:: 1937
Site Survival:: No Longer Extant

Description

The Cedar Avenue 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 around Cedar Avenue, at about Jackson Ave. and Retner St. 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.

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/GOSIRTPagePartTwo.htm (accessed Mar. 2018)

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fort_Wadsworth_(Staten_Island_Railway_station)

Site originally submitted by Evan Kalish on March 7, 2018.