Nassau (Staten Island Railway station)

Nassau
Former Staten Island Railway rapid transit station
Nassau station from the St. George-bound platform in July 2014.
Station statistics
Address	Saint Andrews Place & Bethel Avenue Staten Island, NY 10307
Borough	Staten Island
Locale	Tottenville, Charleston
Coordinates	40°31′04″N 74°14′18″W / 40.5178°N 74.2384°W / 40.5178; -74.2384Coordinates: 40°31′04″N 74°14′18″W / 40.5178°N 74.2384°W / 40.5178; -74.2384
Services	none (closed)
Structure	At-grade
Platforms	2 side platforms
Tracks	2
Other information
Opened	after 1922'
Closed	January 21, 2017
Station code	520
Station succession
Preceding station   Staten Island Railway   Following station Richmond Valley toward St. George Main Line former Atlantic toward Tottenville Richmond Valley toward St. George Main Line opened 2017 (station closed)
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Nassau was a Staten Island Railway station located roughly between the neighborhoods of Tottenville (to the south) and Charleston (to the north), in Staten Island, New York. The station, along with the Atlantic station, was closed on January 21, 2017, replaced by the new Arthur Kill station.

Nassau station opened sometime after 1921, over sixty years after the opening of the 1860 opening of the Staten Island Railway from Annadale to Tottenville. The station was named for the nearby Nassau Smelting & Refining Company, which extended the station to its current length in the 1970s. The factory opened in 1882 as the Tottenville Copper Works and changed its name in 1931 to the Nassau Smelting & Refining Company. As a subsidiary of Bell Telephone System's Western Electric division, the factory recycled obsolete telephone equipment and manufactured copper wire and solder. It would later be called AT&T Nassau Metals. For more than 20 years, the site was a vacant brownfield, until the land was cleaned up in 2007 and became environmentally safe for future development.

In about 1971, the station platforms were extended to 300 feet, funded in part, by the Nassau Smelting Plant. The station extension was built on timber covered with asphalt. Nassau, along with the nearby Atlantic station (also built next to a factory), were not modernized in the 1990s along with the rest of the line, because of the proposed replacement station at Arthur Kill Road. Due to structural deterioration of the extension and lack of maintenance, on September 2, 2010 most of Nassau station towards the eastern end was closed off. Construction on the replacement station, now simply called Arthur Kill, began in October 2013, and was opened on January 21, 2017. With the opening of Arthur Kill, the Nassau station was closed and demolished.