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☆ Orange Steam Funnels Are a New York Symbol. What Are They For?
▼ + stars: | 2024-04-02 | by ( Patrick Mcgeehan | Yuvraj Khanna | ) www.nytimes.com time to read: 1 min

Woody Allen included one that rose from Fifth Avenue in the opening montage of “Manhattan.” In one of the final episodes of HBO’s “Succession,” Kieran Culkin’s character leaves his father’s funeral and walks past one in the middle of East 55th Street. “Movie producers ask if they can rent them or buy them from us,” said Frank Cuomo, Con Edison’s general manager of steam services. He said one producer had contemplated using dry ice to simulate steam for a shot. But, he cautioned, if you ever see one onscreen in a scene set in Brooklyn or the Bronx, it has to be a fake.

Persons: Woody Allen, HBO’s, ” Kieran Culkin’s, ”, Frank Cuomo, Con Edison’s Organizations: ”, “ Locations: Manhattan, Brooklyn

☆ Huge Turbines Will Soon Bring First Offshore Wind Power to New Yorkers
▼ + stars: | 2023-11-27 | by ( Patrick Mcgeehan | More About Patrick Mcgeehan | ) www.nytimes.com time to read: +1 min

The pier on the Connecticut coast is filled with so many massive oddities that it could be mistaken for the set of a sci-fi movie. It is a launching point, not for spacecraft, but for the first wind turbines being built to turn ocean wind into electricity for New Yorkers. Crews of union workers in New London, Conn., are preparing parts of 12 of the gargantuan fans before shipping them out for final assembly 15 miles offshore. “They’re sort of space-stationesque,” said Christine Cohen, a Democratic state senator who toured the assembly site last week. Recent setbacks to several other offshore projects in the region have raised concerns about whether and when they all will be built.

Persons: Crews, ”, Christine Cohen, it’s, ’ Organizations: Democratic Locations: Connecticut, New London, Conn

☆ New Phase of Gateway Tunnel Project in Hudson River to Begin
▼ + stars: | 2023-11-03 | by ( Patrick Mcgeehan | ) www.nytimes.com time to read: +1 min

Construction of the long-delayed rail tunnel under the Hudson River is about to speed up, as the project gets an additional injection of $3.8 billion in federal funding. Senator Chuck Schumer, Democrat of New York and the majority leader, will announce the latest grant from Washington on Friday, just before he and Pete Buttigieg, the transportation secretary, are scheduled to proclaim the start of work this month on the next phase of the $16.1 billion tunnel on Manhattan’s West Side, known as the Gateway project. This new, early phase of the project involves constructing a concrete casing for trains to pass through under the Hudson Yards section of Midtown Manhattan, between the river’s edge and Pennsylvania Station. On the New Jersey side of the river, work is scheduled to begin, also this month, on the realignment of a highway so that the digging of the tunnel can begin. Plans laid out by the project’s sponsor, the Gateway Development Commission, call for two giant boring machines to grind their way through the cliff, under the river and into the bedrock of Manhattan.

Persons: Chuck Schumer, Pete Buttigieg Organizations: Pennsylvania, Gateway Development Commission Locations: Hudson, New York, Washington, Midtown Manhattan, Jersey, Manhattan

☆ More Than Five Days Later, Fatal Cargo Ship Fire Is Out
▼ + stars: | 2023-07-11 | by ( Patrick Mcgeehan | More About Patrick Mcgeehan | ) www.nytimes.com time to read: +1 min

Firefighters and other responders had been working to suppress the fire since Wednesday night, pumping water from Newark Bay onto the towering ship and its load of 1,200 vehicles. The persistence of the fire led to speculation that some of the cars on board were electric vehicles with lithium ion batteries. But Beth Rooney, the port director, said that the ship’s manifest indicated that there were no electric vehicles on it. She said that the ship had carried new electric vehicles to Baltimore before arriving in Newark, where it took on a load of “previously owned vehicles” bound for West Africa. Two Newark firefighters, Augusto Acabou, 45, and Wayne Brooks Jr., 49, died trying to knock the blaze down.

Persons: Beth Rooney, Rooney, Augusto Acabou, Wayne Brooks Jr Organizations: Newark Locations: Newark Bay, Baltimore, Newark, West Africa, Providence, R.I

☆ Why Backers Say a New Tunnel to Manhattan Benefits the Broader Economy
▼ + stars: | 2023-07-07 | by ( Patrick Mcgeehan | More About Patrick Mcgeehan | ) www.nytimes.com time to read: +2 min

Gateway is actually the second attempt at adding a rail tunnel under the Hudson. The first, known as the ARC tunnel, got as far as the start of construction before Chris Christie, then the Republican governor of New Jersey, put a stop to it in 2010. The federal government had pledged to contribute $3 billion to ARC, but New Jersey would have been responsible for any cost overruns. If he had not canceled ARC, that tunnel might have already been in use. Still, more than 20 years after transportation officials started drawing up plans for a modern rail tunnel under the Hudson, its arrival is at least 12 years off.

Persons: Chris Christie, Christie, Barack Obama, Donald J, Trump, Obama, Biden, Schumer Organizations: ARC, Republican, Amtrak, Mr, Democratic, Hudson Locations: Hudson, New Jersey, Manhattan, New York

☆ Hudson Tunnel Project to Get $6.9 Billion in Largest U.S. Transit Grant
▼ + stars: | 2023-07-06 | by ( Patrick Mcgeehan | More About Patrick Mcgeehan | ) www.nytimes.com time to read: +1 min

The governors of New York and New Jersey agreed last year to an even split of the local share of the cost of building the tunnel. That agreement was a critical precursor to obtaining federal funding for the project. Regional transportation officials have been in a hurry to secure a federal commitment to Gateway while President Biden is in office and Democrats have control of the Senate. Mr. Biden, a longtime rider of Amtrak trains between Washington and his home state of Delaware, has been an ardent supporter. Amtrak, which owns the tunnels, plans to shut those tracks for repairs, one at a time, once the new tunnel is in use.

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☆ A Crumbling New York Garage Collapsed. Dozens More Have Similar Problems.
▼ + stars: | 2023-05-15 | by ( Patrick Mcgeehan | Asmaa Elkeurti | ) www.nytimes.com time to read: +1 min

After a parking garage collapsed in Lower Manhattan last month, killing one person and injuring five others, officials scrambled to check dozens of other garages across the city for structural problems that could cause another disaster. They immediately identified dozens of garages with potential hazards, ordering some shuttered and closing off sections of others until their structural defects could be repaired. Three weeks after the fatal collapse, city officials have revealed little about what they found in their sweep. They have not identified the more than 170 parking structures they rushed to inspect or divulged what conditions they discovered within them. But a New York Times examination of the city’s garages has found that serious structural problems are widespread — and in many cases have been allowed to persist uncorrected for years.

☆ 4 Parking Garages Ordered Evacuated After Deadly Collapse in Manhattan
▼ + stars: | 2023-04-28 | by ( Patrick Mcgeehan | ) www.nytimes.com time to read: +1 min

In the wake of a deadly collapse of a parking garage in Lower Manhattan last week, New York City officials found structural problems at four other garages so dangerous they ordered the buildings at least partially vacated. At those four garages — two in Manhattan and two in Brooklyn — the city’s Buildings Department found that the structures had “deteriorated to the point where they were now posing an immediate threat to public safety,” said Andrew Rudansky, a spokesman for the department. The discoveries, he said, came during inspections of garages conducted after the April 18 collapse of a garage on Ann Street in the Financial District in Manhattan that left its manager dead in the rubble and five others injured. Engineers found that a two-story garage at 2781 Stillwell Avenue in the Coney Island section of Brooklyn was in “severe disrepair,” Mr. Rudansky said. The department issued a “full vacate order” for the entire building and ordered its owners to close for business and immediately retain a professional engineer to compile a structural report, he said.

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