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There is a lumber yard directly across the road from the station and these buildings together with a few early 20th century houses form the corner of Overton Corners. In the 1920s through the 1950s, there was an island separating the north and southbound traffic on the Canadian side of the border.
The SIR's Clifton Yard is next to the northbound track, with yard leads and signals north of Clifton station. South of the station are the remains of the South Beach Branch turnout and a dismantled bridge. [8] To the south, a spur on a pair of I-beams on concrete pillars is the location of an old coal, concrete, and lumber business.
Constructed in 1851, it was the first lager beer factory on Staten Island. Originally named the Clifton Brewery , it was financed in a joint venture between Antonio Meucci and Giuseppe Garibaldi . Comprising a number of brick buildings from three to four stories in height, it bordered railroad tracks between the Staten Island Railway main line ...
The stadium was built in the early 1920s by the wealthy owner of the local Thompson's Lumber Company. It was built against a hill in Staten Island's Stapleton neighborhood and doubled in summer as a home for semi-pro baseball. Inside its stockade fence, about 8,000 uncovered bleacher seats encircled the field.
The Livingston station is a former station on the abandoned North Shore Branch of the Staten Island Railway. [3] Located north of Richmond Terrace at Bard Avenue in the Livingston section of Staten Island, it had two tracks and two side platforms. [3] The site is 1.8 miles (2.9 km) from the Saint George terminal. [4]
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The Eastport sawmill were to mill pine logs coming from the O'Brien's holdings, and from there ship them by sea to the company's yard on Staten Island. In 1914 the company placed an order with the New York Shipbuilding Co. to build a cargo steamship, specifically designed for lumber transportation.
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