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id="node-309796" class="node node-news-story clearfix" about="/news-nyc-transit-staten-island-railway-arthur-kill/2017/01/20/staten-island-railway-celebrates-1st" typeof="sioc:Item foaf:Document"> <span property="dc:title" content="Staten Island Railway Celebrates 1st New Station in 20 Years" class="rdf-meta element-hidden"></span> <div class="submitted" style="color:gray; font-style: italic; padding-left:8px;"> January 20th, 2017 </div> <div class="content"> <div class="field field-name-field-rotator-horizontal-image field-type-image field-label-hidden"><div class="field-items"><div class="field-item even"><img typeof="foaf:Image" src="https://web.archive.org/web/20170121224425im_/http://www.mta.info/sites/default/files/styles/rotator_horizontal/public/news%20images/arthur_kill.jpg?itok=AZNoG71O" width="438" height="220" alt="Arthur Kill SIR Station" title="Arthur Kill SIR Station"/><div class="imgcaption">Arthur Kill SIR Station</div></div></div></div><div class="field field-name-body field-type-text-with-summary field-label-hidden"><div class="field-items"><div class="field-item even" property="content:encoded"><p style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px 0px 1.5em; border: 0px; font-size: 13px; vertical-align: baseline; line-height: 18px; color: rgb(51, 51, 51); font-family: helvetica, arial, clean, sans-serif;">Move over, Second Avenue Subway: There's another new station in town.</p> <p style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px 0px 1.5em; border: 0px; font-size: 13px; vertical-align: baseline; line-height: 18px; color: rgb(51, 51, 51); font-family: helvetica, arial, clean, sans-serif;">The Metropolitan Transportation Authority (MTA) will open the new Arthur Kill station, the first new Staten Island Railway (SIR) station built by the MTA since the private rail line was incorporated into the MTA network in 1971, on Saturday, January 21.</p> <p style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px 0px 1.5em; border: 0px; font-size: 13px; vertical-align: baseline; line-height: 18px; color: rgb(51, 51, 51); font-family: helvetica, arial, clean, sans-serif;">The Arthur Kill station and its new parking lot, located on Arthur Kill Road between Lion Street and Barnard Avenue in the Tottenville area, replaces the Nassau and Atlantic SIR stations that will be demolished. The Nassau station primarily served the Nassau Smelting factory, which closed in the 1980s. The two older stations were small, with short platforms that did not adequately accommodate the railway’s modern fleet. </p> <p style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px 0px 1.5em; border: 0px; font-size: 13px; vertical-align: baseline; line-height: 18px; color: rgb(51, 51, 51); font-family: helvetica, arial, clean, sans-serif;">The new station is compliant with the American Disabilities Act and serves as a park-and-ride stop for customers who can leave their vehicles in a new 150-spot parking lot across the street or as a transfer point for connections to the S78 bus route. The station platforms accommodate SIR’s fleet of four-car trains and allow boarding at all doors, as compared to single-door boarding at the Nassau and Atlantic stations. In addition to the new parking lot, the Arthur Kill station has customer amenities such as benches, surveillance cameras, Customer Assistance Intercoms, and bicycle racks. Resiliency-related infrastructure enhancements include raising and improving the tracks, storm-proofing storage facilities and the electrical distribution and communications systems, and installing a heavier-duty drain system with underground detention tanks and perforated drain pipes for controlling water runoff and limiting soil displacement. The landscaping included native plants such as grasses, trees and shrubs, and permeable features to reduce storm runoff. Fencing, concrete curbs and gravel <span style="color: rgb(34, 34, 34); font-family: Arial, Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: 12px;">berms</span> were installed to control soil erosion.</p> <p style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px 0px 1.5em; border: 0px; font-size: 13px; vertical-align: baseline; line-height: 18px; color: rgb(51, 51, 51); font-family: helvetica, arial, clean, sans-serif;">The station’s design maintains the historic feel of the neighborhood yet incorporates the color scheme and architecture of the Staten Island Railway. The overall design emphasizes use of resilient materials and simple structural forms. The northbound and southbound platforms are connected by an overhead structure that is accessible via platform staircases and ramps and both towers of the structure and the connecting overpass are covered by canopies and enclosed with windscreens, providing shade and protection from inclement weather. New LED fixtures provide brighter and environmentally friendly lighting to supplement natural lighting through transparent windscreens. </p> <p style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px 0px 1.5em; border: 0px; font-size: 13px; vertical-align: baseline; line-height: 18px; color: rgb(51, 51, 51); font-family: helvetica, arial, clean, sans-serif;">New artwork in the windscreens at the top of both towers and in the overpass was designed by artist and Staten Island-native Jenna Lucente and commissioned by MTA Arts & Design. “Tottenville Sun, Tottenville Sky,” consists of 28 large-scale laminated glass panels featuring a mix of wildlife and landscape scenes that are unique to the area’s geography and community. The towers’ glass panels are laminated blue with foreground images of indigenous wildlife and framed with an intricate design that pays homage to neighborhood architecture. The background of each panel features a landscape, either natural or urban, of the neighborhood. These narrative scenes include the southern shoreline of Staten Island, the Outerbridge Crossing and historic area buildings. The blue color represents the sky and the evening commute. The glass panels that line the overpass form four sets of triptychs laminated in yellow, which represents sunlight and the morning commute. One set forms a view of the Outerbridge Crossing from Arthur Kill Road with egrets in the foreground; another features the historic Conference House. Altogether, the panels represent the past, present and future of Tottenville and all that call it home. </p> </div></div></div> </div> </div> </div>  </div>  </div> <div id="sidebar_second_ad" class="column sidebar"><div class="section roundCorners"> <div class="region region-sidebar-second"> <div id="block-google-adsense-google-adsense" class="block block-google-adsense"> <div class="content"> <div id="Google-skyscraper-ad"> <script type="text/javascript">  </script> <script type="text/javascript" src="https://web.archive.org/web/20170121224425js_/http://pagead2.googlesyndication.com/pagead/show_ads.js"></script> </div> </div> </div> </div> </div></div>  </div> <div id="foot-div"> </div> </div> </body> </html>