Grant City (Staten Island Railway)-The SubwayNut

Grant City is a Staten Island Railway Station located in an open-cut below the streets. The station has two side platforms for the two-track line with concrete walls or just shrubbery along the sides of each platform. It was fully grade-separated in 1965 in a project to eliminate grade-crossings. The stations main entrance is at the northern end of each platform, where there is a small brick station house located along Lincoln Avenue above the tracks, passengers pass through small walkways surrounded by brick before reaching a staircase down to each platform. This staircase connects to a canopy structure on each platform for about half a car length. The canopies are painted a light green color.

The station has a secondary exit, a single covered staircase leads up from each platform attached to a very similar canopy structures that are the same length as the ones for the main entrance. These staircases leads up to a covered bridge, held up by light green support structures that is a pedestrian crossing between each side of Railroad Avenue, and is the pedestrian only connection of two distinct sections of Fremont Avenue where vehicular traffic is split into two by the railroad.
Photos 1-16: June 20, 2011;

R44 #404 stopped in the station, this platform, like most on the SIR can accommodate 5 car trains, although only 4 are cars are normally in operation

Zooming in on R44 #404 leaving the station, passing under the brick station house above on a St. George Local

The ends of the platforms are in an open cut with a mixture of concrete and grassy sides

At the end of one of two platform canopies by a staircase on the St. George-bound platform

Looking across to the exit to Fremont Avenue from the Tottenville-bound platform

View down the station's white-roofed canopies and station house by the main entrance staircases in the distance

The Fremont Avenue pedestrian bridge that also provides station access

Looking towards the southern ends of the platforms

Bollards and one of the entrances from Fremont Avenue

The stoplight and slightly angled crosswalk at the end of Fremont Avenue

Looking across Railroad Avenue at the little station house

The arrow above the little entrance through the bricks to the Tottenville-bound platform

Multiple signs in the bricks for the Tottenville-bound platform

The St. George station entrance through the station house