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St. George Terminal is a ferry, railway, bus, and park and ride transit center in the St. George neighborhood of Staten Island, New York City. It is located at the intersection of Richmond Terrace and Bay Street, near Staten Island Borough Hall, Richmond County Bank Ballpark and Richmond County Supreme Court. St. George is one of the few remaining rail-sea connections in the United States. ==History== A new ferry and rail terminal at the St. George site (then called St. George's Landing) and an extension of the SIRT north form Vanderbilt's Landing (today's Clifton Station) had been proposed in the 1870s by the owners of the Staten Island Railroad, George Law, Cornelius Vanderbilt, and Erastus Wiman, to replace the various ferry sites on the north and east shores Staten Island.〔 St. George was selected due to it being the closest point from Staten Island to Manhattan, approximately a distance.〔〔 The name of the terminal and the local neighborhood were renamed to St. George in honor of Law, allegedly as a concession by Wiman in order to build the terminal and connecting tunnel on land owned by Law. An extension of the line to Tompkinsville was opened in 1884, and the underground tunnel between Tompkinsville and the terminal was constructed from 1884 to 1885.〔 The ferry terminal was opened in early 1886, while the rail terminal opened in March of that year.〔〔 The terminal's entrance building would be opened in 1897.〔 The St. George rail terminal as originally built was constructed of wood, with no overhead obstructions.〔 Adjacent to the station was a large freight terminal called the St. George Yard, where the Baltimore and Ohio Railroad's freight operations exchanged with car floats to other terminals in the New York Harbor.〔 The B&O also operated the SIRT and ferries under a 99-year lease signed in 1885.〔 A trolley terminal for the Staten Island Electric Company was formerly located above the ferryhouse. The St. George tunnel was lengthened in 1905.〔 It was built with two portals at its north end; one on the geographic east side currently in use by the SIR, and an additional western portal intended for the Staten Island Tunnel, which would have traveled across the Narrows and connected to the New York City Subway's BMT Fourth Avenue Line in Brooklyn.〔 In 1923 an excavation shaft for the Narrows tunnel was constructed at the south end of the terminal near Shore Road, though construction was halted in 1925.〔〔 On June 25, 1946, a large fire destroyed both the wooden ferry and rail terminals. Full service was restored in July of that year. A new facility was built by the city, opening in 1951, which led the tunneling shaft to be filled in.〔〔〔 The former freight yard is currently the site of a NYCDOT Municipal Parking Lot and the Richmond County Bank Ballpark.〔〔 The station served as the northern (eastern) terminus for the SIR North Shore Branch to Arlington and Port Ivory until its closure in 1953. The line used tracks 11 and 12 on the north end of the terminal, which are currently unused.〔〔 Currently, St. George hosts a direct rail-sea connection,, one of a few left in the United States.〔 抄文引用元・出典: フリー百科事典『 ウィキペディア（Wikipedia）』 ■ウィキペディアで「St. George Terminal」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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