User:Kew Gardens 613/sandbox 12

This sandbox is for SIR-related things. The goal is to transfer this material to the mainspace. Other users should feel free to add information that is fit, improve, and add references to the work that is here.

General
https://www.nypl.org/blog/2016/01/22/staten-island-public-domain

https://books.google.com/books?id=xKAgvkNdO4cC&q=%22richmond+valley%22#v=snippet&q=%22richmond%20valley%22&f=false

Opening
Charter

The Staten Island Railroad Where It Is To Run–Its Owners–Its Cost–Its History and Prospects–Conditions Of Its Affairs, And All About It.

Someone advertised an 82 acre lot in 1852 because a proposed SI Railroad stop was going to be nearby

1880-Negotiating ROW

Damages

William H Vanderbilt

Vanderbilt

Details of the Rapid Transit Scheme

1887 Progress

Arthur Kill Progress

South Beach Railroad

Baltimore and New York Railway
B&NY

1905 Double-Tracking

Extensions
Algernon?

Improvements Help Richmond Realty– Bridge across Arthur Kill

Grade Crossing Eliminations
State to Eliminate 4 Crossings on S.I.

Electrification
Considered in 1905

Double Tracking
Rail Gossip

Capital Stock

1893

Improvements Help Richmond Realty

Contract

June 1895 Double-tracking between Tottenville and New Dorp is being rapidly pushed, proposed to increase service to hourly trips and to allow for express trains

1907

[http://fultonhistory.com/highlighter/highlight-for-xml?altUrl=http%3A%2F%2Ffultonhistory.com%2FNewspaper%252018%2FNew%2520York%2520NY%2520Press%2FNew%2520York%2520NY%2520Press%25201911%2FNew%2520York%2520NY%2520Press%25201911%2520-%25203656.pdf%23xml%3Dht SIRTRC petitioned NYC on June 13, 1911 for an extension of time from October 29, 1911 to October 29, 1914 to complete a second track across Richmond Terrace. They had been given two years to do so.]

Abandonment of plan to double-track 1917

The City Record
City Record 1912

History of SIR

Timetables
June 5, 1860 "Open to Princess Bay Station" with a stop at Pryor's Road

(June?) 1860

May 30, 1883 – Annandale?

Station Renovations
Tottenville–The Future City of Staten Island, and the rival of Newark and Paterson

Richmond Valley station
Richmond Valley ESI

https://www.ny1.com/nyc/staten-island/news/2018/06/04/mta-begins-work-on-sir-s-richmond-valley-station

http://www.mta.info/press-release/nyc-transit/repairs-improvements-coming-staten-island-railways-richmond-valley-station

Working West Shore 2030 Study Proposal to move Richmond Valley to Page Avenue with a park and ride

Transit hub, and TOD on Nassau Metals Site

https://www1.nyc.gov/assets/sirr/downloads/pdf/Ch21_Appendix_Initiatives_FINAL_singles.pdf

Page 16 – https://www1.nyc.gov/assets/planning/download/pdf/applicants/env-review/eas/12dcp080r_eas.pdf

Station often damaged due to floods from Mill Creek; proposal to construct floodgates

Station atop of tidal wetlands with streams behind both platforms

Both streams will be removed and directed under the tracks as part of the Mill Creek Watershed Bluebelt project currently underway to NYC DEP Bluebelt BMP’s (Best Management Practices).

Study cost $205,000

https://stormrecovery.ny.gov/sites/default/files/crp/community/documents/statenisland_nyrcr_plan_20mb.pdf

https://www.nycedc.com/sites/default/files/filemanager/Resources/Studies/Stronger_More_Resilient_NY/Ch15_Staten_Island_FINAL_singles.pdf