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Port Ivory is a coastal area in the northwestern corner ofStaten Island,New York City,New York,United States. It is located onNewark Bay near the entrances theKill van Kull in the east andArthur Kill in the west. It is bordered byArlington to the east,Old Place to the south,Newark Bay to the north, and theArthur Kill to the west.
The area bore the name of Milliken originally, and became locally known as Port Ivory afterIvory Soap, one of the best-known products fromProcter & Gamble, which operated a factory at the site from 1907 until 1991, when the soap making operation was moved toMexico.[1][2] Located nearby is theHowland Hook Marine Terminal.[3][4] ThePort Authority of New York and New Jersey which leases the Howland Hook facility is contracting out the construction of anintermodal rail yard using part of the former Ivory Soap factory site to help with ship to rail transshipment.[5]
Another transportation resource is the North Shore branch of theStaten Island Railway, which crosses theArthur Kill on its ownArthur Kill Vertical Lift Bridge, adjacent and parallel to theGoethals Bridge, and eventually reachesCranford Junction,New Jersey. However, passenger trains stopped serving thePort Ivory (formerly Milliken) station several years before passenger service on the branch as a whole ceased in 1953,[6] and freight activity on the line became rare by the 1970s and nonexistent by the beginning of the 1990s. Efforts to restore the freight service by theNew York City Economic Development Corporation were completed in June 2006. TheArlington Yard re-built connected to the newExpressRail terminal at the marine terminal.[7][8]
TheStaten Island Expressway is sometimes cited as Port Ivory's southern boundary.[9] The island's (and New York City's) lonemobile home park is on Goethals Road North, a service road of the expressway; the only other residents of the heavily industrial neighborhood live in a few older single-family homes a short distance to the east, along Forest Avenue.
40°38′24″N74°10′44″W / 40.640°N 74.179°W /40.640; -74.179
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