This Thanksgiving, our Chief Experience Officer reflects on his gratitude for the play that changed his life!
This now-obscure holiday was once bigger than Thanksgiving...and the 4th of July!
Uncover secrets of the steam system that powers NYC's most iconic landmarks!
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Rendering Courtesy of Stantec, Painting: Jara Henry Valenta, East River, 1934, oil on canvas, 23 x 32 in. (58.4 x 81.2 cm.), Smithsonian American Art Museum, Transfer from the U.S. Department of Labor, 1964.1.21
New York City is home to the largest district steam system in the world, with more customers served than the next nine systems combined. The Upper East Side is home to two of the Con Edison plants that generate that steam, and we will see the exterior of both of them–one underneath the Queensboro Bridge at East 60th St., and the other at East 74th St. Steam customers, including Grand Central Terminal, The Met, and Rockefeller Center, all buy steam from Con Edison.
We’ll also stop by the New York Presbyterian Hospital and learn about the creative cogeneration plant that provides both heat and power to the campus. Guests will learn all about how the system functions, as well as what it looks like when it breaks!
Along the way, with beautiful views of the East River and Roosevelt Island, guests will explore the newly minted East River Greenway and learn about its conception and construction.
Cullen Brown is a licensed New York City guide who translates his passion for energy, engineering, and the environment into tours that bring you face-to-face with the infrastructure that makes our lives in NYC possible. His tours (including Powering NYC: East River Ferry Tour and Inwood’s Hidden Infrastructure: Power & Transit Tour) focus on electricity, water, steam, transit, and the people who built and maintain those very systems, and he is thankful for the opportunity to collaborate with Untapped New York.
Originally from Buffalo, New York, Cullen was inspired by the natural and industrial history of Niagara Falls, as well as his historic preservationist parents, to learn and share knowledge about our natural and built environment.
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