Arlington Yard
Arlington Yard is a freight yard located on the North Shore Branch right of way of the Staten Island Railway in Staten Island, New York, United States.
Arlington Yard is a freight yard located on the North Shore Branch right of way of the Staten Island Railway in Staten Island, New York, United States. It lies west of the former Arlington station, east of Western Avenue, and north of the Staten Island Expressway in the Port Ivory neighborhood. The yard leads into the Travis Branch of the railway, the Howland Hook Container Terminal, and the Arthur Kill Lift Bridge to Elizabeth, New Jersey and the Chemical Coast and is part of the ExpressRail network.
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Worth seeing in and around Arlington Yard
10 places within 25 km that the world writes about, in the order of how widely: the ones a visitor has heard of first, then the ones only a local would name.
- 01Bayonne Bridge
The Bayonne Bridge is a steel through arch bridge that spans the Kill Van Kull between Staten Island, New York, and Bayonne, New Jersey, United States. It carries New York State Route 440 and New Jersey Route 440, with the two roads connecting at the state border at the river’s center.
2.9 km · arch bridge connecting Staten Island, NY with Bayonne, NJ · Wikipedia - 02Fresh Kills Landfill
The Fresh Kills Landfill was a landfill covering 2,200 acres in the borough of Staten Island in New York City, United States. The name comes from the landfill's location along the banks of the Fresh Kills estuary in western Staten Island.
6.4 km · landfill site · Wikipedia - 03To the Struggle Against World Terrorism
To the Struggle Against World Terrorism is a 10–story sculpture by Zurab Tsereteli that was given to the United States as an official gift from the Russian government as a memorial to the victims of the September 11 attacks in 2001, and the 1993 World Trade Center bombing. It stands at the end of the former Military Ocean Terminal in Bayonne, New Jersey.
9.5 km · sculpture by Zurab Tsereteli · Wikipedia - 04Todt Hill
Todt Hill is a 401-foot-tall hill formed of serpentine rock on Staten Island, New York. It is the highest natural point in the five boroughs of New York City and the highest elevation on the entire Atlantic coastal plain from Florida to Cape Cod.
6.3 km · mountain · Wikipedia - 05Staten Island Museum
Staten Island Museum is Staten Island’s oldest cultural institution, and the only remaining general interest museum in New York City. Founded in 1881 by fourteen of New York City’s first “environmental activists”, the Staten Island Museum houses artifacts and specimens from ancient to contemporary periods.
8.3 km · museum in Staten Island, New York · Wikipedia - 06Postcards
Postcards is an outdoor sculpture in St. George, Staten Island, New York City, United States.
8.4 km · memorial (sculpture) · Wikipedia - 07Wagner College
Wagner College is a private college in Staten Island, New York, United States. It was established in 1883 and, as of the 2023–2024 academic year, it enrolled approximately 1,932 students, including 1,592 undergraduates and 340 graduates.
7.1 km · private college in Staten Island, New York, United States · Wikipedia - 08Staten Island Zoo
The Staten Island Zoo is an 8-acre urban zoo in West New Brighton, Staten Island, New York City. The zoo is open year-round except on Thanksgiving, Christmas, and New Year's Day.
5 km · suburban zoo in West New Brighton, Staten Island, New York City · Wikipedia - 09Kean University
Kean University is a public university in Union, Elizabeth, Hillside, Jefferson, and Jersey City, New Jersey. It is part of New Jersey's public system of higher education and is a state-designated research university.
7.1 km · public university in New Jersey, United States · Wikipedia - 10Saint George Terminal
St. George Terminal (also known as St.
8.5 km · ferry, railway, bus, and park and ride transit center in the St. George neighborhood of Staten Island, New York City · Wikipedia
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Getting to Arlington Yard
- Airports
- Newark Liberty (EWR), 6 km · LaGuardia (LGA), 30 km · John F. Kennedy (JFK), 33 km
- Stations
- Newark Liberty International Airport, 6.6 km · AirTrain Newark, 7.1 km · Linden Airport, 6.2 km · Eltingville, 9.9 km · Great Kills, 9.3 km
- Philadelphia → Arlington Yard113 km · quickest by road, 2h 32m · $10–14
- Hartford → Arlington Yard177 km · quickest by road, 3h 50m · $17–24
- Albany → Arlington Yard227 km · quickest by road, 4h 7m · $20–28
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No local-transport research exists yet for Arlington Yard
Our researched notes are written from a sourced entry: every shared taxi, boat and village bus with its operator, its rule, its fare and the year we saw it, and what could not be confirmed. Nobody has done that work for Arlington Yard. What is above is what we hold from open sources; nothing here pretends to be more.
- Get inHowever, there are plans to develop a ferry system that will transport passengers to and from Elizabeth to New York.
From Wikivoyage: Elizabeth, CC BY-SA. Not yet checked by us; that article was last edited 2026-09.
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Next door to Arlington Yard
Arlington Yard is 8 km from Staten Island, the nearest large city, whose note carries the wider picture.
- Staten Islandborough of New York City, New York, United States of America7.2 km
- Roselleborough in New Jersey, USA7.5 km
- Arthur Killtidal strait and a kill separating Staten Island, New York City from mainland New Jersey6 km
- New Dorpneighborhood of Staten Island, New York City, USA8.2 km
- New Brightonneighborhood on Staten Island, New York6.9 km
- Tompkinsvilleneighborhood on Staten Island, New York City, USA7.5 km