Nassau 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 1924
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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Layout to Richmond Valley to Atlantic

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 was built sometime after 1924 in order to serve the Nassau Smelting & Refining Company, and had a siding so that freight could be transferred to and from the factory. The station platforms were extended in 1971 as part of the modernization of the rail line. However, the condition of the station deteriorated after the 1990s, as this station, and the Atlantic station to the south, were planned to be replaced by a new station at Arthur Kill Road. When that station opened in January 2017, Nassau station was closed and subsequently demolished.

Nassau station opened sometime after 1924, over sixty years after the 1860 opening of the Staten Island Railway from Annadale to Tottenville. The station was named after and built to serve the nearby Nassau Smelting & Refining Company, which was located directly to the west of the southbound platform. The station allowed workers of the company easy transportation access while also providing freight service to the company via a rail siding located to the west of the southbound platform. 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.