page_title: Dongan Hills station
section_title: Station layout
hierarchical_section_title: Dongan Hills station / Station layout
caption_attribution_description: English: Looking north at Dongan Hills station house on a partly sunny midday.
context_page_description: Dongan Hills is a Staten Island Railway station in the neighborhood of Dongan Hills, Staten Island, New York.
context_section_description: The station is located on an embankment at Seaview Avenue and Railroad Avenue on the main line. It has two side platforms and beige canopies.
  The marble wall at street level on the south end is a legacy of when the line was converted from grade level to the current embankment level today. The grade separation took place in 1933.  Free parking is available on a small lot adjacent to the northbound platform, which is owned by the MTA, the agency that controls the rail line. The brick station house is unusually positioned on the northbound side at platform level, unlike other SIR station houses, which are usually located on street level. The Dongan Hills station house had a ticket booth and benches until 1987, and then a vending machine for tokens until July 4, 1997 when the fare was eliminated for all stations south of St. George.
  South of this station, there is an additional third track that once served a coal distributor. Grates between the rails led to chutes which now open into the backyards of homes that run alongside the embankment.
caption: Parking lot and station house
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