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{{Short description|Staten Island Railway station}}
{{Use American English|date=February 2025}}
{{Use mdy dates|date=December 2017}}
{{Infobox station
| name               = Grasmere
| image              = SIR Grasmere Station Northbound Track.jpg
| image_caption      = Platform and northbound track
| style              = Staten Island Railway
| platforms          = 1 [[island platform]]
| tracks             = 2
| connections        = {{bus icon}} [[NYCT Bus]]: {{NYC bus link|S53}}
| structure          = [[Open-cut]]
| code               = 505
| address            = Clove Road and Giles Place<br/>[[Grasmere, Staten Island|Grasmere]], [[Staten Island]]
| coordinates        = {{coord|40.60347|-74.08378|display=inline,title|type:railwaystation_region:US-NY}}
| opened             = c. {{start date and age|1886}}
| services           = {{Adjacent stations|system=Staten Island Railway|line=Main|left=Clifton|right=Old Town}}
| map_state          = collapsed
| route_map          = {{NYCS 2-tracked island platform station|dir=NW|Clifton|Old Town|inline=y|3r=y|code=Staten Island Railway}}
| mapframe           = yes
| mapframe-custom    = {{Infobox mapframe |shape=none |line=none |marker=rail-metro |marker-color=#{{rcr|Staten Island Railway|Main}} |zoom=15 }}
}}

The '''Grasmere station''' is a [[Staten Island Railway]] station in the neighborhood of [[Grasmere, Staten Island|Grasmere]], [[Staten Island]], [[New York (state)|New York]]. It is located at Clove Road on the Main Line.

==History==
The station opened in 1886 for a cost of $555.35.<ref>{{cite book|title=New York (State). Board of Railroad Commissioners|date=1886|edition=Volume 2|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=z9ZFAQAAMAAJ&q=woods+of+arden&pg=PA977|access-date=December 6, 2015}}</ref>

Rehabilitation of Grasmere station began on May&nbsp;21, 2012. The construction included demolition and rebuilding of the station platform and station house. A temporary platform and entrance were built north of the main station. Construction was finished in April 2014.<ref>{{Cite news|url=http://www.silive.com/news/index.ssf/2012/05/major_repairs_railway_5_2012.html|title=Major repairs on the way for Staten Island Railway|last=Sedon|first=Michael|date=May 18, 2012|work=SILive.com|access-date=December 24, 2017|language=en-US}}</ref><ref>[http://www.mta.info/nyct/service/SIR_MajRepairs.htm MTA Grasmere Station Getting Major Repairs] {{webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20120520154531/http://www.mta.info/nyct/service/SIR_MajRepairs.htm |date=May 20, 2012 }} May 21, 2012</ref><ref>{{Cite news|url=http://www.silive.com/news/index.ssf/2012/07/sir_construction_at_grasmere_s.html|title=Staten Island Railway construction at Grasmere means weekend detour|last=Sedon|first=Michael|date=July 11, 2012|work=SILive.com|access-date=December 24, 2017|language=en-US}}</ref>

==Station layout==
The platform is located in an open cut and has glass block and concrete windscreens attached to the canopy supports.

The Grasmere crossover, consisting of two manual switches, was located just past the Fingerboard Road overpass north of the station, but has since been removed. North of this station, the line merges with the abandoned [[South Beach Branch]]. The branch was closed on March 31, 1953 due to poor ridership and the SIRT's financial issues.<ref>{{cite book |last=Pitanza |first=Marc |title=Staten Island Rapid Transit Images of Rail |publisher=Arcadia Publishing  |year=2015 |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=eOSsCQAAQBAJ&q=staten+island+rapid+transit&pg=PA7 |isbn=978-1-4671-2338-9}}</ref><ref name=EssentialHistory>{{cite web|last1=Leigh |first1=Irvin |last2=Matus |first2=Paul |title=Staten Island Rapid Transit: The Essential History |url=http://thethirdrail.net/0201/sirt1.html |website=thethirdrail.net |publisher=The Third Rail Online |access-date=June 27, 2015 |date=January 2002 |url-status=dead |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20150530063638/http://www.thethirdrail.net/0201/sirt1.html |archive-date=May 30, 2015 }}</ref><ref>{{cite book |last=Drury |first=George H. |title=The Historical Guide to North American Railroads: Histories, Figures, and Features of more than 160 Railroads Abandoned or Merged since 1930 |publisher=[[Kalmbach Publishing]] |year=1994 |location=[[Waukesha, Wisconsin]] |pages=312–314 |isbn=0-89024-072-8}}</ref>

{|table border=0 cellspacing=0 cellpadding=3
|style="border-top:solid 1px gray;" width=50|'''G'''
|style="border-top:solid 1px gray;" width=100|Street level
|style="border-top:solid 1px gray;" width=400|Exit/entrance, parking, buses<br>{{NYCS Platform Layout access}}
|-
|style="border-top:solid 1px gray;border-bottom:solid 1px gray;" rowspan=3 valign=top|'''P'''<br>Platform level
|style="border-top:solid 1px gray;"|<span style=color:#{{rcr|Staten Island Railway|Main}}>'''Southbound'''</span>
|style="border-top:solid 1px gray;"|← {{rint|newyork|sir}} toward {{stl|Staten Island Railway|Great Kills}} or {{stl|Staten Island Railway|Tottenville}} <small>({{SIR platform layout/previous}})</small><br>← {{rint|newyork|sir}} rush hour express does not stop here
|-
|style="border-right:solid 2px black;border-left:solid 2px black;border-bottom:solid 2px black;border-top:solid 2px black;text-align:center;" colspan=2|{{small|[[Island platform]]}}
|-
|style="border-bottom:solid 1px gray;"|<span style=color:#{{rcr|Staten Island Railway|Main}}>'''Northbound'''</span>
|style="border-bottom:solid 1px gray;"|{{0|→}} {{rint|newyork|sir}} toward {{stl|Staten Island Railway|St. George}} <small>({{SIR platform layout/next}})</small> →<br>{{0|→}} {{rint|newyork|sir}} AM rush express does not stop here →
|}

===Exit===
The Grasmere station's only exit is at the north end of the station, and leads to the southern side of Clove Road. This station had the original brick [[Head house|station house]] from the 1933 grade separation project, located over the [[Tottenville (Staten Island Railway station)|Tottenville]]-bound track at the south end of the line, however it was demolished and replaced with a modern headhouse in the 2010's. The building is open only during the morning [[rush hour]].<ref name="exits">{{NYCS const|exits}}</ref>

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==References==
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==External links==
{{Commons category|Grasmere (Staten Island Railway station)}} 
*[https://web.archive.org/web/20071227095438/http://www.mta.info/nyct/sir/sirmap.htm Staten Island Railway station list]
*[https://web.archive.org/web/20071203173341/http://www.mta.info/nyct/sir/sirinfo.htm Staten Island Railway general information]
* [https://maps.google.com/?ie=UTF8&ll=40.60374,-74.083511&spn=0.003853,0.013679&z=17&layer=c&cbll=40.60374,-74.083511&panoid=A40PeGoUmiVZ5iG3CgaX8A&cbp=12,224.84,,0,-1.49 Clove Road entrance from Google Maps Street View]
* [http://www.google.com/maps/@40.6031761,-74.0839462,3a,75y,32.51h,91.01t/data=!3m8!1e1!3m6!1s-tKOb6SgNDdk%2FV-mOAWUEoqI%2FAAAAAAAASa4%2Fn6AL6YzYG5g1BwtzzaRtMqm7TnNSUfJsACLIB!2e4!3e11!6s%2F%2Flh4.googleusercontent.com%2F-tKOb6SgNDdk%2FV-mOAWUEoqI%2FAAAAAAAASa4%2Fn6AL6YzYG5g1BwtzzaRtMqm7TnNSUfJsACLIB%2Fw203-h100-p-k-no%2F!7i9728!8i4864!4m3!8m2!3m1!1e1 Platform from Google Maps Street View]

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[[Category:Staten Island Railway stations]]
[[Category:Railway stations in the United States opened in 1886]]
[[Category:1886 establishments in New York (state)]]