| Type: | Former Staten Island Railway station | ||||||||
| BallPark | |||||||||
| Line: | SIR North Shore Line | ||||||||
| Style: | Staten Island Railway | ||||||||
| Platforms: | 1 island platform | ||||||||
| Tracks: | 1 | ||||||||
| Structure: | At-grade | ||||||||
| Address: | Wall Street & Richmond Terrace St. George, Staten Island | ||||||||
| Coordinates: | 40.6452°N -74.0773°W | ||||||||
| Opened: | June 24, 2001 | ||||||||
| Closed: | June 18, 2010[1] | ||||||||
| Other Services Header: | Former services | ||||||||
| Map State: | collapsed | ||||||||
| Mapframe: | yes | ||||||||
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Richmond County Bank Ballpark, styled simply as Ball Park and BallPark on station signage, is a disused station on the Staten Island Railway, located at Wall Street and Richmond Terrace.
The station was opened on June 24, 2001 in conjunction with the Staten Island Yankees baseball season, serving the team's new Richmond County Bank Ballpark on game days only.[2] [3] It was the newest station on the railway until the opening of Arthur Kill station on January 21, 2017.[4] This station was only operational during the baseball season, which usually ran from June to September. One train was scheduled to travel to/from Tottenville, with two or three shuttle trains from St. George serving the station.
Due to a budget crisis suffered by the Metropolitan Transportation Authority, this station was closed on June 18, 2010, the date of the first scheduled home game of the season. As a result, a short walk from St. George, or traveling on the S40 or S44 buses, is required to reach the stadium.[1] [5] [6] Trains last served the station in September 2009. The station is still used by employees to reach locomotives that are now stored on the only track at this station.
| G | style="border-top:solid 1px gray;border-bottom:solid 1px gray;" width=100 | - | Street level |
| P Platform level | Northern trackway | Trackbed | |
| Southern track | No passenger service (No service: Tompkinsville or St. George) |
There are no turnstiles at this station. It is served by a one-track wye which extends from St. George to the southern (geographically eastern) trackway of the station's island platform. Bumper blocks are present at the end of the station, though the wye continues to the end of the ballpark parking lot where it ends at a second set of bumper blocks. This section originally was electrified but is no longer powered. After the abandonment of the station, the sole track is used to store locomotives. The northern trackway currently has no track and is unused.