⁴ᴷ Staten Island Railway: St. George to Tottenville Full Ride
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- I ride the Staten Island Railway from St. George to Tottenville. It is the only rapid transit line on the Borough of Staten Island and owned by the Metropolitan Transit Authority (MTA).
Filmed January 6, 2018
Timestamps
0:44 - St. George Platform
5:41 - Tompkinsville
7:30 - Stapleton
9:50 - Clifton
13:32 - Grasmere
15:00 - Old Town
17:10 - Dongan Hills
18:35 - Jefferson Av
20:12 - Grant City
21:43 - New Dorp
24:00 - Oakwood Heights
25:55 - Bay Terrace
27:50 - Great Kills
29:46 - Eltingville
31:43 - Annadale
33:48 - Huguenot
35:35 - Prince's Bay
37:45 - Pleasant Plains
39:20 - Richmond Valley
41:07 - Arthur Kill
43:49 - Tottenville
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Thank you so much for this video. I grew up on this train as a child. Annadale was my hometown and the rhythm of these trains was the cadence of my childhood! We always took it to St. George, but almost never to Tottenville, so seeing that end point is especially memorable for me! Riding this train was one of my favorite childhood memories. And I'm old enough to remember the old wicker seats and the chicken wire windows and the train conductors asking for fares as I pretended to sleep!
Wonderful to see someone else who remembers the same car seats as I do. Should have gone to Tottenville. You would have met another ferry -- that one to Perth Amboy, NJ
Yes, me too. Wicker seats always tore my stockings.
@@margies5625I remember the Perth Amboy ferry very well. When we went to Perth Amboy to shop, a ride on the ferry was a special treat. We'd just ride the ferry over to Tottenville and back, not getting off, just riding back and forth. It seemed like an ocean voyage to me and my sister. We were very sad when it stopped running.
Several years later and here I am watching a full route on a train I never really heard of much.
It's crazy, I was watching this for the memory and to show somebody the train I had to take when living in Staten island, I moved three years ago, probably right before this video was taken because you can see me get on at eltingville and I sit right next to you the rest of the train ride in the grey hoodie... That's wild
Thank You so much for this video... I just moved out here 6 months ago from Nassau county long island great neck... This makes me feel more comfortable knowing my way around Staten island... Great job!!! I appreciate you
Anyone else from New York City and was curious what an mta subway looks like in stand island ?
It’s why I’m on this video 🤣
I'd actually been on SIR(T) R-44's in my life - once before and once after GOH.
Wow, they took out the Nassau & Atlantic stations. Atlantic was my station. At the foot of Fisher Ave where I lived & communited to St George to the 120 pct.
Yeah they took em out now it’s just the tottenville to st George line
They also took out the north shore branch line
The best views riding a train in NYC. All the other trains in the city are mostly underground.
What a throwback, I kind of miss taking the si trains, thank you for posting this 😊
When I was a kid in the 70’s we used to call this the Toonerville Trolley. The cars were old and brown ( not dirty, just brown) and the seats were made of some kind of plastic wicker.
Those are the cars I remember. Rode it 10x a week for 3 years so likely have been on every single car.
Been a long time since I rode the SIRT! Thanks for the memories!
Time stamps (correct)
0:44 St. George Terminal
5:59 Tompkinsville
7:37 Stapleton
9:51 Clifton
13:34 Grasmere
15:01 Old Town
17:12 Dogan Hills
18:44 Jefferson Avenue
20:14 Grant City
21:43 New Drop
24:02 Oakwood Heights
25:59 Bay Terrace
27:53 Great Kills
29:47 Eltingville
31:45 Annadale
33:49 Hugenot
35:35 Prince’s Bay
37:47 Pleasant Plains
39:22 Richmond Valley
41:08 Arthur Kill
44:04 Tottenville
You forgot to typed the Station names.
durece100 I typed them in now
@@aliciahilliard812 Thanks.
What stop to get off to go to the beach ??
@@mdejesus3888 if ur going to south beach get off at grasmere
The SIR is legally a railroad that's overseen in a different manner by the NTSB than the rest of the subway. This fact is muddled a bit by the usage of NYCT rolling stock. Look at the "watch the gap" signs on the doors, they're required on all railroad's passenger cars federally. The "metros" such as NYC subway has a different set of regulations.
Mind the gap is mentioned in London..... :)
Technically USDOT/FRA, (formerly ICC) not NTSB (which is an advisory committee that can make recommendations only).
I'm watching all your videos to check new places to visit in Ny in June !! ... and this video has enchanted me, get on a train and go through Staten Island !! 👌💝 thank you very much!!!!
Nice video. Seems like the on-train announcements are as incomprehensible now as the were in 2014 when I used to ride it!
They are ….
It's a subway train used as a railroad, New York City Subway bullet for this is SIR. There are rumors about an extension of the subway system
Love the MTA Staten Island railway and subway
Love it
What subway? Isn't it the samething?
25:57 Justin Ave trestle, Bay Terrace Station, I played stick ball right underneath here when I was a kid.
Thank you Papa.. This is the only line I have never ridden... Until now. :)
Please watch the closing doors.................... Ding..Dong..
Maybe in the case of this one aging car, just "Ding."
When I was somewhere between 11 and 14, me and 1or 2 friends would ride from Great Kills to New Dorp to go to the movies at the Lane Theater. Back then the fare was .25 cents. That same .25 cents could buy more candy at the theater. So we would see which car the conductor was on and get as far away as we could. There are only two stops between Great Kills and New Dorp. So if we got caught, the only thing the conductor could do was put us off at the next stop. Big deal, wait for the next train, and do it again. We left early to avert disaster (arriving late ). I t gave us time to walk down New Dorp Lane, which at that time, before the mall or even the first shopping plaza (Forest Ave shopping plaza) was one of the places people came to shop. Port Richmond was the #1 place to shop at that time.
if only it could go all the way to manhattan or even brooklyn...
Direct access for criminals? No thanks!
@@bigjake2295 wow what a stereotype.
To be fair, it can. Here would be my plan. It would be to connect the 4th Avenue Line in Brooklyn to the present day SIR through a tunnel in between the boroughs. Here's how it would work. Extend the W from Whitehall Street into Brooklyn and have it run on the 4th Avenue Line until 59th where the W then goes left and uses the Bay Ridge Branch tracks to go to make a stop at the abandoned Brooklyn Army Terminal before going into the tunnel to Staten Island and then it continues where it's next stop ends up being St George and it continues to Tottenville. Tell me if you think this is a good plan or not.
@@POKEGAMERZ-uy5lv there are many things the mta needs to fix and work on before even considering that kind of a project imo and i also doubt we will ever see thos happen tbh just too much money for them nowadays
Hell no, otherwise it won’t be unique. And it wouldn’t be subway anymore
I live near Grasmere btw. Very tight station.
Last time I rode that line, there was no Arthur Kill station, but there were Nassau and Atlantic stations
Joseph Mastandrea before it was Even build (Arthur Kill) And Before it was demolished (Nassau And Atlantic)
Hey action kid, its been a while. I found myself currently in need of the service your videos provide, haha. Wanted to go to si mall with someone I met in this world but didn't feel 100% about it so I settled for watching this instead ! xD
Now that is a Great Ride ❤❤❤❤❤❤❤❤❤
2:08 FACE REVEAL! :)
Staten Island Railway, a unique kind of NYC Subway.
I love Tottenville. Its a special place
Grew up there mid 1940s till 1963. All of two stoplights in town, both on Amboy Road.
All sorts of geezers and characters in tottenville I love em I love Staten Island so so much
Staten Island is not that great. Lol, its no Western US
@@ivant4081 home is home yknow haha 😂😂
Took that ride back home from York Ave and 68th Presbyterian Hospital over 11 years , 11 fucking years of that shit , took the boat ..then 4 years after took the express bus from Elting to 72nd straight shot ...soo much better than waiting around for the boat .
Clifton has changed so much
Earlier I was going to Manhattan with my mom then when we go to elitingville station we had to wait 27 mins!! And for a few mins the train got holded back . Also when we were in Richmond ave THE TRAIN LEFT USSSSSSSS!!!!!!! 😢
Oh that’s horrible
i live right in eltingiville i take the train there all the time
Dam that's tuff
I forgot about this comment lol
I heard that there are regular train and express train during rush hour. How to determine that? Will it look like a express 7 train which the circle of the logo became square/diamond? Thank.
You need to watch the diamond shapes, that’s a clear indication that a train is going express. Also, many trains are normally express trains on their own.
Thank you actionkid
This video makes me miss it
Nice video
Thanks.
Love it! Thank you!
R44
Why are some turnstiles backwards?
The best ride in NYC except for the schedule and announcements...
Rhode this many times when I worked on Wall Street.
If there's only one line, why are there so many tracks converging on what appears to be a rather large terminus at St George? Many thanks.
because staten island is weird and confusing i speak from experience
You stop at great kills
The only thing that is a good app that I have had is that I can use the word to describe the app to my iPhone or iPhone to the iPad
I used to live at oak wood heights😄 24:00
SIR Blue bullet, is local, SIR Red bullet is express
You have to stop at great kills
What's the stop to get off to the beach ⛱️ ??
tottenville is next to the beach
Is this the old B&O line that had freight trains, And if so does it still have freight service. I saw the locomotives in a yard near the beginning of the film. Thanx in advance
SIR was owned by the B&O Railroad. The old SIR cars had a sort of blue paint. There was freight service. Don't know the current status.
Thanx!!
Currently, the line is only passenger service. There is no freight service.
Thanx for the reply
You're welcome.
So you have a good time to get to
The first thing that is
They should ads more lines to the SIR
It was like that before with 2 diff branched, but the Mta cut those off.
@@MetrolandClub oooooh
@@Kris.Demontiming To be specific, the North Shore Branch, West Shore Branch, and the Ballpark branch.
@MetrolandClub get your facts right, North Shore Line closed down in 1953 and it wasn't owned by the MTA until they acquired it in 1971. Do your research before spreading misinfo
@@MetrolandClub dummy
we need to find a way the connect this railway to Manhattan
I heard of a horrible accident😢 at this station.
All stations are free except the St. George and Tottenville required to pay the fare
Tottenville is free your thinking of Tompkinsville
@@jrawesometv thanks
Which railway do I want?
Why is St. George still so huge? 12 tracks... I really doubt more than 2 (maybe 4) are needed.
It was original design, and there are literally just 4 tracks that lead to Ballpark, the other 8 are normally used, 4 for Local, 3 for Express, 1 for Great Kills.
St. George terminal is a relic of when the SIR was a much bigger operation. The railroad used to have three lines, now, there is only one.
@@youminholastransit3218 *railway
Ya really should go to front of the train and use front window 🪟 to shoot your videos from, otherwise view is limited and goes by too fast ⏩💨⏩ imo ijs 🤷🏻
Which camera?
1 train 2 train 3 train 4 train 5 train 6 train 7 train station and then train to the station to get off
isnt the train free i didnt know u swipe your metro card at st george
It’s free to ride anywhere between Stapleton and Tottenville
i hop it…
Not sure what is going on here
Why was only 1 door open?
still like that till today they never fixed it
2:54 why is she speaking Hindi
New Yorkers show no respect to the Staten Island Railway. Shameful.
My opinion may be in the minority, but I consider the SIR to be part of the NYC subway network. The MTA should make an attempt to connect the two in the future.
3:02
Nooooooooooooooooooooooooo
The first thing you can say is that I don’t like it because of my friends that you don’t want you to do that
I can't understand the ghetto announcer...
"Getchoh ass onna train yo"
That's how it sounds to me lol
thi ih a loc ________ Grahamere, sta______
I have looked at the MTA maps for Staten Island. Given the "gazillion" bus routes that crisscross the Island, one has to ask what purpose SIR serves other than to keep people employed and spend taxpayer dollars.
Cats01 Thousands of residents use the SIR to head to the city for their jobs and is used by students (You never seen a train pack before until you seen a 2:00 PM train filled with high school kids. You can’t move a inch.) So no it not a waste of taxpayer dollars. As a person who lives on Staten Island it a very useful means of transport which is sadly not invested in more. Half the stations are in bad shape.
@Daniel Roberts aren't democrats for public transit?
Staten Island is A Republican Controlled Borough, by the Republican Establishment, the Borough that the People of Staten Island & Richmond County, Widely Supported That Hump Trump & that Nazi Mayor Rudy.