Railway Overpass: Park Avenue (abandoned) - Staten Island NY

City:: Staten Island, NY
Site Type:: Roads, Bridges, and Tunnels, Infrastructure and Utilities, Mass Transportation
New Deal Agencies:: Public Works Administration (PWA), Public Works Funding
Started:: 1935

Description

The overpass carrying what was then a freight and passenger railway (the North Shore Branch of the Staten Island Railway) over Park Ave. was constructed during the mid-1930s as one link in a massive grade separation project. The structure leads into the former elevated Port Richmond station, and is imprinted with the date 1935.

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

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Port_Richmond_(Staten_Island_Railway_station) (accessed Mar. 2018)

Gary Owen’s S.I.R.T. North Shore Line Page: https://gretschviking.net/GOSIRTNorthShore.htm (accessed Mar. 2018)

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.

Brooklyn Daily Eagle: "Opens S.I. Viaduct; Longest in Nation," Feb. 26, 1937.
The New York Times: "Staten Island Opens Mile-Long Viaduct: Thirty-four Grade Crossings Are Eliminated," Feb. 26, 1937.

Site originally submitted by Evan Kalish on March 6, 2018.